It’s time to take your design skills up a notch with another Designs By Miss Mandee tutorial! In today’s video, I walk you through the steps of how to make curved text in Adobe Illustrator. So, buckle up, and come along on this fun, 7 minute ride with me.
The main tools you will be using:
Type
Window>Type
Shortcut: T
Envelope Distort
Object>Envelope Distort>Make with Wrap
Shortcut:⌥⇧⌘W
Ellipses Tool
Shortcut: L
Scissor Tool
Shortcut: C
Set Baseline Shift
There you have it. Now you’re ready to make some kick-butt badge logos and in-your-face typographic posters! And, for your reference, the two fonts I used in this video are Carneval (Bold) and Westmorland.
Thanks for taking the time to watch my video, I hope you were able to learn something new and enhance your design skills. If you have any questions about this tutorial, don’t hesitate to leave a comment. And if you have any suggestions for future tutorial videos, let me know that too: if you’ve got something you’d like to learn, I’d be more than happy to teach you what I know.
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Mandee is a graphic designer, tennis player, and roller coaster enthusiast. She is a wife to hardworking high school teacher and mommy to two super cute little boys. She fell in love with graphic design when she started working with a guy she met her freshman year of college on his comedy website. Design wasn’t the only thing she fell in love with, and they were married a year and a half later. She started Designs By Miss Mandee as a place to further develop her designs skills and share her creative inspiration.