Tracing a Specific Letterform with a Shape Tool in Adobe Illustrator 2021

Deke uses the new Snap to Glyph option in Adobe Illustrator 2021 to fill in the counters of a few O's with a relative ease that was previously hard to come by.

Snapping to Letterforms in Adobe Illustrator

Deke explores Adobe Illustrator 2021's ability to snap objects into alignment with different parts of letterforms, which Adobe calls Snap to Glyph

Aligning to Point Type in Adobe Illustrator

Deke demonstrates the immense usefulness of Adobe Illustrator's new Align to Glyph features, which give you better control when aligning to point or area type.

New Ways to Scale Type in Adobe Illustrator 2021

Deke explores the new feature in Illustrator 2021 that allows you to set the height of your fonts based on things like x-height or Cap height.

Drawing a Perfectly Kerned Logo in Illustrator

Deke shows you how to create a logo with letters living in perfectly kerned harmony

Symbols and Spaces in Adobe Illustrator CC 2017

Deke demonstrates the new symbols and special character features in Adobe Illustrator CC 2017

Deke's Techniques 346: Creating Uniform Hand Drawn Letters in Illustrator

Deke shows you how to create custom hand-drawn letters in Illustrator, with tips for how to repeat shapes so that they look like a cohesive font.

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Deke's Techniques 163: Applying Custom Carve and Shadow Styles to Any Font

Today, I show you how to create and assign custom variations on the classic type styles Carved and Shadow to any typeface. And the text remains altogether editable.

Deke's Techniques 039: Hand Kerning Inside a Single Character of Type

In this week's episode, I show you how to kern the space inside of a composite typographic character like the percent symbol, pictured above.