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How To Create Custom Type Designs in Adobe Illustrator

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How To Create Custom Type Designs in Adobe Illustrator

2,951,401 views October 28, 2016 7:48

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In brief

You’ll transform ordinary fonts into eye-catching custom typography in Adobe Illustrator using OpenType features, then enhance them with shadows, accents, and highlights for a vibrant, handcrafted look. Perfect for designers who want stylish text effects without lettering from scratch.

Key steps

  1. Select a ready-made font with OpenType features in Illustrator
  2. Add shadows, offsets, and highlights for depth and color
  3. Combine effects to create a cohesive, custom typography design

Questions & answers

What fonts work best for this technique?

The creator uses the Bonbon Script Font, but any font with OpenType features can be customized this way.

Description from the creator

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In today's Adobe Illustrator tutorial I'm going to show you how to create a custom typography design. Usually text styles like this would be lettered by hand, but in this tutorial I'll share some secrets on how you can still create cool looking typography by customising ready-made fonts with clever OpenType features. The tutorial will then continue with some customisation of the type to add shadows, offset accents and highlights to create a bright and colourful text effect.

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Spoon Graphics published this 7:48 video tutorial on October 28, 2016. It has been watched 2,951,401 times on YouTube.

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October 28, 2016
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