- [Instructor] Adding a hatched shadow to your type.
Select the type.
Come to the appearance panel.
I'll start by just clearing out any existing appearance.
Then add two new fills.
The top fill I'll make white.
And then the fill below, I will apply a pattern to this.
Come to the swatches library menu.
Patterns.
Basic graphics.
Lines.
Now choose one of these.
I'm going to use
that one, 60 LPI.
So that I can see it, I'll come to the effects dropdown.
Choose transform, and now I will offset it.
And I'm going to offset it by 12 points.
Now I'll need to follow
this up with a second transformation,
and it needs to be done as a separate step
which will change the scale of the pattern and the angle.
If you run into a warning dialogue box asking
if you're sure you want to apply a second effect, you do.
Now look what happens when I change the scale.
Things go badly wrong.
That's because I need to make sure
that transform objects is not selected.
We are just transforming the patterns here.
So in my case, I want the scale to be 40%,
and then the angle to be minus 15.
That may be as far as you need to go,
but here are a couple of suggestions
for how we can take it a bit further.
If I want to edit the pattern,
perhaps I want the pattern to be white lines
rather than black lines.
Then I can come and double-click
on the pattern in the swatches panel.
This takes me into pattern editing mode.
I can select the pattern tile,
maybe change the weight of the stroke.
And then I'm also going to change the color of the stroke.
Now it's going to seem like it's disappeared
because we have white on white, but we know it's there.
I'm also, and again, entirely optional,
I'm also going to apply some roughening to those lines.
So distort and transform. Roughen.
Very small amount, 1%.
Detail, 30, and the points will be smooth.
Now, when I leave my pattern editing mode, we see
our pattern now has slightly rough lines,
and those lines are white.
One more refinement that I want to make,
and that's to add some space
between the type and the pattern itself.
So with the type selected,
I'm going to come and apply a stroke
and the stroke will be the same color as the background.
I'll move the stroke down beneath the fill,
and then I can adjust its white as necessary.