- [Instructor] Here's a typeface Gill Serif,
that doesn't exist.
I created this by chopping off the serifs
from another typeface and then grafting them onto Gill Sans.
Let's see how we can do that.
Here we have Minion Pro,
and I have drawn these lines over the serifs
and I will use those to chop off the serifs
but first I need to convert the type to outlines.
And then with the outline type and the lines selected,
I'll come to my path, find a panel,
click on the three dots to see more options.
What I want is Pathfinder Divide.
Now I'll need to ungroup my result.
Object Ungroup.
Let's select those serifs,
I'm holding down the shift key to select all
of those individual pieces
and we'll put them into a different color
and now we'll move them over
into position or as close as we can get it to start with.
I'll select the Gill Sans type.
This will need to be converted to outlines.
Let's position the serifs,
if necessary, get into a nice big view size
so you can see clearly what you're doing.
There may need to be some scaling involved.
For the serifs on the A, I only need one of them
because I'm going to come to my Reflect Tool
and duplicate a copy for the second.
Because unlike the Minion in this case,
the serifs can mirror each other.
All right, now when I have everything in position,
let me just zoom out a little bit , command minus,
a couple of times, and then I will select all of that.
And with my Shape Builder tool, I'll now zoom back in.
I'll combine all of those elements into a single shape.
So hopefully that will give you some food for thought
about how you can customize your letter forms.