From the course: Illustrator on the iPad: Typography and Type Effects
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Mirror repeat
From the course: Illustrator on the iPad: Typography and Type Effects
Mirror repeat
- [Instructor] Our third type of repeat is a mirror repeat, which at its most basic is just that. So I'll select this piece of type, come to Repeat, Mirror. And then I'll come and choose the pin at the top. And I can just spin that around. And I can bring the reflection closer to the original. Let's try and take this a little bit further. I'll come to my Layers panel, and I'll now delete this layer, just by swiping left with my finger. And then I'll turn on layer two where I have some type that is in color. Now, I would, in addition to the mirroring, also like to combine this with opacity and show you how that if we convert the type to outlines before we mirror, that's going to give us a bit more flexibility with how we can affect the letter shapes thereafter. So first of all, I am going to... Once I've got my type in place, and by the way, I'm using a typeface here called Blenny Black. I'll outline the text, and…
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