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Adjusting the line weight

Adjusting the line weight - Illustrator Tutorial

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Adjusting the line weight

- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look at line weight which determines the thickness of a stroke. Now notice down here, I have a series of hand drawn characters that are based on these letters at the top of the document which are set in a font called Adobe Caslon Pro. Now, if you don't have that font and you end up getting this missing fonts warning when you open the document and you subscribe to the creative cloud and you are connected to the internet, then make sure the activate checkbox is turned on for that missing font and then click on the activate fonts button or just don't worry about it. It's not going to affect your experience either way. Now notice that each one of these letters that requires more than one path outline such as the a and the b and so forth are created as compound paths. And you can see that's the case by the appearance of the words compound path up here in the control panel. And…

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