- [Instructor] In this chapter,
I'd like to look at some commonly used type effects,
beginning with outline and inline type.
Here are some examples of the kind
of thing I'm talking about.
These effects are easy to achieve
In this first example I would like
to add two offset paths to my piece of type
on the right hand side.
We're going to come to the Appearance Panel
and on the Appearance Panel,
bottom left I'll add a new fill.
Change the color of that fill to white
then I'm going to Duplicate that
and I'm going to duplicate it again
The second one down I will make black.
I'm going to come to my effects to Path
and to Offset Path.
I'll turn on my preview
and I would like this one to be Offset by three millimeters.
Then I'll come to the bottommost fill,
change its' color and I'll repeat that step,
coming to my Offset Paths,
increasing the amount of Offset
in this case to five millimeters.
Moving now to my second example.
So if we can create an offset
outside of the original type shape
we need to make sure that the type is Mono White,
which is not currently the case.
If I get my rectangle tool
and draw myself a square that corresponds
to the thickness of the vertical stroke,
and then move this down
we see that the horizontal stroke is not as heavy.
I'm going to convert this rectangle to a guide
by pressing Command or Control five.
Now I'll get my Direct Selection tool
and grab this path segment.
By the way the type has been converted to Outlines already.
and drag this up holding the Sift key.
So now I will select the group with my selection tool,
come to my Appearance Panel,
and we will add a New Fill
and we'll have the Fill be black
and then I'm going to Duplicate this.
Now on the top Fill I'll change it to white
and come to my Path Offset Path
And I can just dial in the desired amount right there.
Moving now to my third example,
here I want to add an offset shadow.
I'll select the example,
the beginning state on the right hand side,
add a New Fill which I will make white
and then come to my stroke.
I need a stroke that is the same as the background color,
in this case the CMYK red.
Now I'm going to drag that stroke beneath the fill
and I'm going to increase its weight.
Then I'm going to Duplicate that stroke
I will change its color to a darker red
and increase its weight,
so that we can now see that darker stroke
appearing outside the stroke
that is the color of the background.
Now to offset this I'll come to my Effects,
Distort and Transform, Transform
and I will move it horizontally and vertically.
In this case by point five of a millimeter.
I'll turn on my preview to see the result,
confirm that, now I'm just going to come back
to my lighter Stroke and increase its weight.
So there are some examples
of what we can do with Outlined and Inlined Type
using the Appearance Panel.