From the course: Illustrator on the iPad: Typography and Type Effects

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Clipping mask positive and negative space

Clipping mask positive and negative space

From the course: Illustrator on the iPad: Typography and Type Effects

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Clipping mask positive and negative space

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- [Instructor] We're joining this project in progress. And what I want to do with this is create an interplay of black and white, positive and negative. You can see that I have a four letter word. Very bold, very square type. The type face that I'm using is Orbitron Black. And I have a square art board. If you need to change the size of your art board, come to the art board tool. You can choose one of the presets. You can just size the art board dynamically. Or you can, as I did, come and change the properties panel and type in an exact dimension. So that layer is locked, or it is now, so that I can't interfere with it. And let's now come to select my type. And I'm going to convert my type to outlines. I'll tap done and then ungroup that result and then move each of the letters into the appropriate quadrant. The E and the H which I'm selecting on the layers panel, those are both going to be white. Now what I want…

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