Open the warp menu by going to Effect > Warp > Arc Upper. ![]() You should be able to click anywhere on it and select the whole thing, since the letters are grouped. We’re going to warp the words one at a time. ![]() Then do the same thing with the letters in PARENT.Īfter you make a copy of everything and hide away your original letters, that is. If you aren’t sure, ungroup everything, then select just the letters in BASEBALL and go to Object > Group (or use the shortcut Ctrl+G). You’ll want to make sure the letters in each word are grouped. The expand window will pop up just leave everything as-is and click OK. Select all of your text, then go to Object > Expand. Next up, we’re going to change our letters from a typeable font into vector objects. This effect works best if you can essentially make your text into a rectangle or square. Line up your words along one edge, then scale the shorter words up to be the same width as the longer words. Since the warping effect presses down on some of the letters, squashing them shorter than normal, it’s smart to start with a taller, thinner font. ![]() I’ve opted to use Impact as my font, since I’ve spotted it in the wild used for the word BASEBALL, and almost every Windows computer user on earth has it already. The first step is, as always, typing out the text. We’re going to do a baseball-themed shirt, since the season has just started. In the interest of full disclosure, I created this effect in both Illustrator and Inkscape maybe it’s because I know Illustrator better, but the Inkscape version took me twice as long, with twice as many steps. This week, I’m doing another tutorial based on a question I’ve seen a lot recently: how to warp text.
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