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Rounding characters of type

Rounding characters of type - Illustrator Tutorial

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Rounding characters of type

- In this movie, I'll show you how to round the corners of individual characters of time to create your own custom round type style. But first, notice that we have a problem with our stroke here. At some points, we have nice sharp, minor joins and at others, Illustrator's seen fit to clip the minors in order to create bevel joints. To fix this problem, I'll go ahead and click inside the shape, in order to select the entire thing. And then, I'll click on the word Stroke up here in the Control Panel and I'll click inside the Limit value and then I'll press the up arrow key, in order to increase that value so that every single point has a minor join which happens in my case at 13X. And then I'll go ahead and press the Enter key or the Return key on a Mac to accept that change. All right, now let's grade some texts by first pressing Control + Shift + a or Command + Shift + a, in order to de-select that object. And then…

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