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118 Making a custom arrowhead

118 Making a custom arrowhead - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

118 Making a custom arrowhead

InDesign offers several choices here in the Stroke panel for stroke endings. For example, it has custom arrowheads, or circle, or a square. But many people want to create custom arrow heads, or other shapes on the end of their lines. Is that possible? sure, with a little work. I'm going to go ahead and close the Stroke panel, and I'm going make a custom point on the end of this line. To do that, I first need a shape, some sort of shape that I'm going to put there. And because I can't draw, I'm going to pull the shape out of a font. I'll grab the Type tool, drag out a text frame, and then I'm going to open the Glyphs panel by going to the Type menu and choosing >Glyphs. As you know, fonts are full of hundreds or even thousands of different characters, and sometimes there are cool shapes that you can use. Things like ornaments or dingbats. In fact, I've used one recently, so it shows up here in the Recently Used section of my Glyphs panel. All I need to do is double-click on it and…

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