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Tutorial: Working with Point Type Labels in Adobe Illustrator

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Here’s a small but important tip 🔸澳洲开奖 it comes to working with station labels in Adobe Illustrator. Most of the time, it’s easier to use what Illustrator calls point type 🔸澳洲开奖 setting labels – that is, you click once with the Type Tool and then type y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划text, rather than dragging out a text frame with the tool. It looks neater in wireframe view and is generally less cumbersome to work with. However, you need […]

Tutorial: Applying a Stroke Behind Type in Adobe Illustrator

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Let me preface this tutorial by saying that — without a shadow of a doubt — this is my number one most favourite, time-saving, map-making Adobe Illustrator trick ever. 🔸澳洲开奖 making 澳洲10开官网开奖, it’s preferable — for both aesthetics and readability — to not have any labels overlay a route line or other elements. However, sometimes it’s simply unavoidable, as in the detail of my Boston MBTA map redesign at the top of the image above […]