1. Option: font bend in Illustrator using text on a path
A way to turn the font in Adobe Illustrator is a path text. So that you can align the font exactly on certain things, or even forms of produce. Just follow these steps:
- First, create a path in the desired shape to receive the Text later. To do this, you can for example use the pen tool.
- Select the start point by clicking a point on the drawing area. You then select a second point and press and hold the left mouse button. While pulling down slightly. As you can see, bends of the path in the desired direction and expression.
- After you have created your path, so how the Text should afterwards be bent, we come to the next step. To do this, click with the right mouse button on the Text tool and select the "text on a path tool".
- You click with this tool to the desired starting point on the path. The Cursor starts to flash, as you know it from Word or similar programs. You can now write your Text.
Illustrator: font bend with the path
2. Option: lettering bending through Curvature
A simple Alternative is to turn the font in Illustrator, is the Curvature. This means that the selected Text is converted into a bow. To do this, proceed as follows:
- Select the Text tool and write a line.
- Then, select the text box by Clicking on it with the selection tool (black arrow).
- Now click on "object" > "envelope distort" > "With Warp create".
- A new dialogue window will open. Here you can set the slider to "bend" the desired Curvature. In addition, you can switch between different styles, depending on what effect you want to create.
Font in Illustrator, turn
If you still have a Reflection to add, we will show you in the next practice tip, as in Illustrator, the objects reflect.
