From the course: Illustrator for Fashion Design: Advanced Drawing Flats
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Style guides for stroke weights - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator for Fashion Design: Advanced Drawing Flats
Style guides for stroke weights
- [Instructor] In this final chapter I want to talk a little bit about professional practices. When you're working at a company, your files are not just your files. They're going to be used by numerous other people who are working with you and many people who will be working after you. We want to be consistent from flat to flat and file to file so that people won't have problems working with your files. Also, so it's easier for you to work with your own files. For starters, line weights. It's important to be consistent with line weights from flat to flat and here are the standards that I like to follow. Stitches are .25, any kind of gather is .5, all the style lines are one point, and after you group the two flats together, the outline should be two points and that makes for a really nice presentation style. Your company might do things a little differently but not a problem, just set up graphic styles that meet the requirements of your company. Then there's the layers panel. I think…
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