At times, you’ll want to fill the empty space around your letters. Again, keep the letters readable at all times. by Mky There is an update again, which optimizes the interface. New fonts and other decorative elements are also available.

The adjustment has the consequence that the modified text boxes (round text and bouncy letters) have to be calculated differently. When transferring saved text boxes discrepancies may occur that have to be corrected manually. The font size is now the central metric for the size of the individual boxes - so scaling the text box practically causes the font size to be adjusted. It’s your task to get creative when drawing letters and connections. You just have to keep in mind that the letters should stay readable. If you would connect an “o” to a “v” on the baseline it would look like an “u”. We don’t want that! Drawing wordsTombow, makers of paint pens and other supplies, provides a tutorial on the use of pen and brush pressure in calligraphy for strong downstrokes and thin upstrokes. The tutorial includes a video demonstration using a brush pen.

Now that you are more familiar and comfortable with the basic style categories, let’s take a look at what we can do to make them more interesting and decorative. Super fun example of how dimensional letters work by Flavia Salvadori Adding dimension and shadow The specific tools can now also be found above. Only the tool that can be used in the respective state is active.

Creative Market offers an excerpt from a Skillshare course on vectorizing your own hand-drawn font with Illustrator. You don’t need to know Illustrator’s often-intimidating pen tool to digitize your work. By keeping our letters consistent, we increase the visual harmony, and it just makes the whole thing look so much better. Sometimes an event causes you to want a person’s name or even their own writing transferred onto your skin.