- Art deco is a style that is forever popular.
And here
what I've done is taken a type face mostrar nova bold
which already has art deco leanings and made it even more so
with the addition of some simple ornamentation.
So here's where we start.
And I am going to, first of all
convert my type to outlines.
Right click, create outlines.
Now I'm going to draw myself couple of
vertical lines
which I will start out by applying white to
and then just increase the stroke weight.
Now that I have one of those
I'll hold down my option or alt key
in combination with my shift key
and then drag that over to create a duplicate.
So now I will come and use my ellipse tool to
create a circle inside the counter shape.
Let's make sure
that that is filled with blank, has no stroke.
I'll switch to my direct selection tool.
select the right most anchor point and press delete.
Now with the two open anchor points at top
and bottom of the circle, I'll select those and join them.
Now I'll select my semicircle, hold down option
or alt and drag away from it to create the copy.
Now, these lines that we drew
need to be converted to paths.
So I will select them both
from the object menu path outline stroke
that will convert them from strokes to fills.
I'll select those first two letters.
I now need to trim them and to do that
I will use the shape builder tool
and I can hold down my option
or alt key to remove those overlapping portions.
Now, when I select the type, I note at top left
it tells me I have a group I need to ungroup this so
that I can on a letter by letter basis, make compound paths
of the starting letter shapes along with the added ornament.
So I'll select the elements that make
up the D and from the object menu, choose compound path
make or keyboard shortcut command, or control eight.
Now, the reason I've done that
I know at the moment, it doesn't look any different.
I've done that to the D, but not currently to the E look
what happens if I put these letters
against a background color, let's just send that
to the back and you'll see that where it is a compound path
that stripe is negative space rather
than being an opaque color.
So that's the reason
that we are making it into a compound path.
So now do the same
for the E this time using the keyboard shortcut command
or control eight, and the same for the C and the O.
Now I'll select all four
of the letters and from the object menu group, them as one.