From the course: Logo Design: Techniques
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I want to create approximations of two very popular logos that use arrows. The recycle logo and the British National Rail logo. And deconstructing logos like this can really help provide you with useful techniques that you can adapt to your own needs. So starting out with the recycle logo. I have a triangle. It has, in this case, a 17.5 green stroke applied to it. I am going to switch to my direct selection tool which will show me my Corner Widget. then come to your View menu, and it's this option right here. For me, it currently says Hide Corner Widget. I can drag this in to round the corners, but I actually want to round the corners to a specific size, and that is going to be 20 pixels. So I'm going to come up to my tool options right here and type that in. Now, I'll come and choose my scissors tool. I want to break the path in three places. There, there, and there. So I now have three open paths. I'll select them all. Come to my stroke options. I'm going to add arrow number seven…
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