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

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Type and gradient

Type and gradient

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

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Type and gradient

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- [Instructor] Let's see how we can work with gradients and type. I'll select my type. The font is Gin, available on Adobe fonts. If I come to my colors, there's no option at the top here to apply a gradient directly to this. But it is possible, here's how we do it. I'm going to draw myself a shape above the type, return to my colors and I can now apply a gradient to that shape. It can be a linear, a radial or a free-form gradient. I'm going to go with a linear gradient. I'd like to change its angle and I'm going to go from black to red. Before I apply this to the type, let me just point out a problem that we see here. The black that I have chosen and I'm using my CMYK sliders, although I could do this as gray scale, hex, HSB or RGB. The black that I'm using is a single color black and to get to red, it has to transition through lots of murky grays. So this is not a very attractive looking gradient. To…

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