From the course: Illustrator on the iPad: Typography and Type Effects
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Type around a circle, part 2
From the course: Illustrator on the iPad: Typography and Type Effects
Type around a circle, part 2
- [Instructor] Here is another exploration of using type around a circle in Illustrator for iPad. As I did in the previous movie, I'm going to begin by drawing myself some guides with the pencil tool. I'll center this vertically, duplicate it, hold down my touch modifier, rotate the duplicate. Select both. Make them a compound path and then convert to guide. Then on the Layers panel, lock the guides. Now to my circle tool. Moving to the outer ring of my touch modifier, I'll draw myself a circle centered on the intersection of those guides. Now to my type tool. Tap and I will get a piece of point text with some placeholder text. I'll double tap to select that and replace it with my own text. I'd like to use a roughened font for this. From my list of fonts down at the bottom, I'll click on More Fonts. And one of the tags that I can browse by is Rough. Now, to spare you having to watch me scroll through all of…
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