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Using Live Paint to create color fonts

Using Live Paint to create color fonts

From the course: Creating Fonts with Fontself, Illustrator, and Photoshop

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Using Live Paint to create color fonts

- [Man] It might look a bit daunting to get started with color fonts, but actually, they can be quite fun. Of course, it depends entirely on what you're making, but in this movie, I want to show you an Illustrator feature and tool that may actually inspire you to do something. Now, both myself and my very good friend Monica Gausa, we are massive fans of this tool and it happens to be the live paint tool, which you access by tapping K on your keyboard for the paint bucket. Now, it won't actually do anything just to the moment. In fact, you can see, there's a small no icon next to the bucket and if I clicked anywhere, then it would just give me a nice little dialog telling me what I've done. So I'm going to hold down the command key, that would be control on Windows. Okay and click on this first group here. Okay, now, it shows that I can click to make a live paint group. So what I'm going to do first of all is choose a…

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