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Rounding characters of type

Rounding characters of type - Illustrator Tutorial

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Rounding characters of type

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to round the corners of individual characters of type to create your own custom round type style. But first, notice that we have a problem with out stroke here. At some points, we have nice sharp miter joints and at others, Illustrator's seen fit to clip the miters in order to create bevel joints. To fix this problem, I'll go ahead and click inside the shape in order to select the entire thing and then I'll click on the word Stroke, up here in the control panel, and I'll click inside the Limit value and then I'll press the up arrow key in order to increase that value so that every single point has a miter joint, which happens in my case at 13x. Then I'll go ahead and press the enter key, or the return key on a Mac, to accept that change. Alright, now let's grade some text by first pressing ctrl + shift + A, or cmd + shift + A, in order to deselect that object, and…

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