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Rounding characters of type

Rounding characters of type - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals

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Rounding characters of type

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- 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 our stroke here. At some points we have nice sharp miter joins, 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. And then I'll go ahead and press the Enter key, or the Return on the Mac, to accept that change. Alright, now let's create some text by first pressing Ctrl Shift A, or Cmd Shift A, in order to deselect that object and then select the Type tool, which you can get by pressing the T key, and now I'm going to go…

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