- [Instructor] Depending on the properties
of the typeface that you're working with,
you may be able to create an interior shape
using offset path.
What's more, you can do this through the appearance panel
so that the type remains editable.
Select the type on the appearance panel.
Bottom-left, add two new fills.
The bottom fill will be the color of the letter.
And the top fill will be the color of the interior shape.
With the top field selected,
come to the FX dropdown.
And to path, offset path.
The offset in this case needs to be a negative number,
exactly how much is going to vary according to the size
of the type that you're working with.
But I'm working with very large type,
and I'm going to go with minus 20 points.
I'm also going to choose a round joint.
Now in addition, and this is entirely optional,
we can apply an inner glow to that interior shape.
So with that selected from my FX dropdown,
I will come to stylize, inner glow.
Let's make sure that we are using multiply
as the blend mode.
And a dark color, in this case, black.
It's remembering the settings that I had before.
I'm blurring it 16 points with an opacity of 50%.
It's just crucial that the inner glow
be in the right place in the stacking order.
If I were to move this,
you can see that we get an entirely different effect,
not necessarily a bad result,
but not the one that I was after.