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Jessica Hische's 3 Important Tips for Vectorizing Your Lettering

Creative Market Last updated: April 3, 2024 · 1 min read

We’re teaming up with Skillshare to bring you some fantastic design tutorials. Today, we’ve got a lesson from the extremely talented type designer, Jessica Hische. In the video below, she walks you through some great tips for how to place your points and work with bezier curve handles when vectorizing your lettering in Illustrator.

3 Important Tips for Vectorizing Your Lettering

To review what you just saw in the video, remember the following:

  1. Plot your points along the extrema
  2. Don’t cross the streams
  3. Make sure your anchors share the workload

These three simple tricks will help you create much smoother curves when vectoring in Illustrator and other vector applications.
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This is just a small sample of Jessica’s awesome full course on lettering. Head over to Skillshare to view the full course.


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11 Comments
  • I absolutely loved this. I've been searching everywhere for some to explain the correct ways of positioning anchorpoints. Especially for custom lettering. Thank you so much Jessica and I hope to see some more of this! 12 years ago
  • Great advice. Love it! 12 years ago
  • Thanks for the post! Hische is a legend! 12 years ago
  • This was really great. So well explained and simple to understand thank you Jessica. 12 years ago
  • That is really helpful. Great stuff, thanks! 12 years ago
  • cool 12 years ago
  • LOL. "If you plot your points that way, the nerds are gonna be super-happy with you." Indeed they will be! 12 years ago
  • Great! 12 years ago
  • Great information. Does anyone know what stand she is using for her macbook in the background at 0:59? 12 years ago
  • fantastic! 12 years ago
  • I learned so much in 6 minutes. Amazing. 11 years ago