How To Make Font Effect In Illustrator

Illustrator is most powerful when youre working with solid shapes.

How to make font effect in illustrator. Click the appearance row the stroke to select it. Pick the Rectangle Tool M and create an 870 x 700 px shape. With the FIRE letters still selected just press right click and choose Create Outline.

Apply an Inner Glow effect 3. Select both and hit Clip in the Transparency panel. Then go to Effect Stylize Inner Glow and set the values.

Create a new fill with a darker shade of the text. Open Illustrator and make a new file at any size you want. With Adobe Illustrator you can use the Live Trace feature to achieve a similar effect.

Then we apply the gradient to it. This selection targets the appearance so that the effect will only be applied to it. Choose the Selection tool and drag a rectangle around the graphic and text to select the whole artwork.

Enter 700 in the width box and 500 in the height box then click on the Advanced button. Enter the attributes shown in the following image and then click that OK button. Select RGB Screen 72ppi and make sure that the Align New Objects to Pixel Grid box is unchecked before you click OK.

Press CMDShiftO or go to Type Create Outlines to convert the text into solid shapes. Im using the beautiful Appleton font that I picked up from a recent fonts deal. Click the Add New Effect button at the bottom of the Appearance panel or choose the effect from the Effect menu.