Thanks for following along with the Month of Sundays Drop Cap Project! For our fourteenth round:
Creating the Letter
Requirements:
- Adobe Illustrator (CS4+) and the Sunday Best Complete Family
- Basic knowledge of Illustrator
- Create a new document in Adobe Illustrator.
- Using the type tool, create your letter. Choose a color and make the font Sunday Best Plain Artisan.
- In the layer palette, duplicate the letter twice in place. (File > Copy; File > Paste in Front) You should now have three identical layers with the same letter.
- Each layer is as follows, from bottom to top: (Each type layer is a different color.)
- Sunday Best Plain Shadow Woodcut – Stylistic Set 1
- Sunday Best Plain Shadow Artisan – Stylistic Set 1
- Sunday Best Plain Artisan
- Next, select the Shadow Woodcut type layer. In the Appearance palette, add two fills and make them each the same color. Select the bottom fill and go to Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform. I used 5 pt /0.0694 inches in the horizontal “Move” setting.
- For the frame: Select the rectangle tool, and starting in the middle of your drop cap, draw a square around it so that it is centered. Apply a fill to it and roughen the shape by going to Effect > Distort & Transform > Roughen. I used these settings:
- Done!
Tips:
- Use the OpenType palette (Window > Type > OpenType) to enable Stylistic Sets/Alternates.
- Another way to do this is to use the Glyphs palette (Window > Type > Glyphs).
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