- [Instructor] There are of course, many stencil fonts
available on Adobe Fonts and elsewhere,
but what if we want to make our own
off-the-peg stencil font?
Perhaps you have a typeface that you're working with
and you'd like to make a stencil version of it.
Select the type, create outlines, and then
as I have done already, just draw a series
of shapes over the letters.
Now select everything, and we want to subtract
those shapes from the letters.
It won't work currently, I'll come to Pathfinder
and click on minus front, and you can see
that it only works on a single letter.
So before we do that, we need to, with our type selected,
come to the object menu, and make it into a compound path.
that will cause it to lose its fill color,
which we won't worry about.
We can restore that in just a moment.
Now I'll select everything, minus front
and the Pathfinder operation now applies
to the whole compound path, and I can now
come and fill the result.