- [Instructor] Here's a technique for rendering
your type as halftone dots.
And this needn't be restricted to type.
You can use it on any object.
This is loosely inspired by the Tate Modern logo.
So I have my type right here.
I've converted this to outlines just
And I have also added a stroke to the type
to beef up its white.
I'm using a typeface with rounded ends
because I think that's just going to work better
in this context.
The first thing I want to do is apply a blur.
I'm going to use a Gaussian blur of 10 pixels.
So now I'm going to come to the object menu
and rasterize this at a resolution of 150.
Just going to add in a very small amount of space
around the object, two millimeters.
And the background is white.
So now that I've created pixels, I want to convert
this back to vectors.
And I want to do that using an object mosaic.
Now in this case I want 50 as the number
of tiles for the width and then the height
is going to be constrained to the ratio.
That's going to delete the original raster image.
So now our artwork is made up of a whole bunch of squares.
The white squares we don't need.
So let's remove those.
I'm going to come to my magic wand.
Let's deselect everything and then click
on one of those white squares, and then we can delete them.
That leaves us with squares that are made up
of differing gray values.
For each gray value we want to apply a different
size of halftone dot with the heavier dots
applying to the darker gray value.
Now, I'm just going to simplify things
but you can achieve a greater degree of quote
unquote shading if you use more dots.
So finding the darkest one first of all.
Let's set its color to black and then come
It needs to be absolute in size
and I'm going to make its size three millimeters.
I'll click okay.
I'll come to my graphic styles and create
a new graphic style based on that.
I'll give it a name.
Now with my wand I'll come and select all
the squares that have that gray value.
And I notice that it's also selecting
the finished artwork above so let me just
recheck this for a moment.
I'll select all of that and we will lock it
so that can't be affected.
And I'll now apply that three-millimeter dot
to that selection.
Let's find the next darkest gray value
and change its color to black.
Come and add an ellipse effect.
Now I'm going to go down to 2.5 millimeters.
Save it as a graphic style.
With your wand, select all of the squares
that have the same gray value and apply the style.
So the rest is just a matter of repetition.
And that's how we can render our type
as a very abstracted halftone effect.