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Using the Glyphs Panel in Illustrator

CATEGORIES: Living In Layers | RC | October 09, 2009

Before I share with you Jacob Cass’ most recent tutorial, I wanted to congratulate Daniel R.Light for winning the Layers blog contest as well as Roberta Moran for winning the Layers TV Contest. Now let’s check out Jacob’s cool tutorial:

01-1 Need a monster to gain world domination? In this tutorial, we’ll teach you how to create a font monster entirely out of a single typeface. What you do with it after that is entirely up to you! You’ll learn how to use the Glyphs panel and how to outline, resize, and rotate fonts. And if you’re adventurous, you can try out the Pathfinder panel, as well. Also, be sure to check out Jonathan Yules’ original Helbotica font monster (www.invdr.com), which inspired this tutorial.

1 [SET UP YOUR DOCUMENT & SETTINGS]
Choose File>New to create new A4-sized document. For maximum efficiency when designing our font monster, you’ll want the Pathfinder panel (Window>Pathfinder), Swatches panel (Window>Swatches), and Glyphs panel (Window>Type>Glyphs) open and within easy reach. Click-and-drag each panel to the left of the artboard and arrange them into a single toolbar. (Note: To dock panels together, drag the panel that you want to appear on the bottom near the base of any panel, and when you see a blue line appear, release the mouse button.)

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