{"id":21455,"date":"2015-02-25T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=21455"},"modified":"2024-04-03T06:05:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T13:05:53","slug":"jessica-hisches-3-important-tips-for-vectorizing-your-lettering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/jessica-hisches-3-important-tips-for-vectorizing-your-lettering","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Hische&#039;s 3 Important Tips for Vectorizing Your Lettering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re teaming up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skillshare.com\">Skillshare<\/a> to bring you some fantastic design tutorials. Today, we&#8217;ve got a lesson from the extremely talented type designer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skillshare.com\/profile\/Jessica-Hische\/7988252\">Jessica Hische<\/a>. 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.<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/plwRPf0NOWY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>3 Important Tips for Vectorizing Your Lettering<\/h2>\n<p>To review what you just saw in the video, remember the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Plot your points along the extrema<\/li>\n<li>Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cross the streams<\/li>\n<li>Make sure your anchors share the workload<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>These three simple tricks will help you create much smoother curves when vectoring in Illustrator and other vector applications.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/02\/03035654\/vector-lettering-tips.jpg.webp\" alt=\"vector-lettering-tips\" width=\"800\" height=\"401\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21458\"><br \/>\nThis is just a small sample of Jessica&#8217;s awesome full course on lettering. 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