How to Make Cut Text Effect in Ilustrator
A designer is required to be creative. Because it’s not just about mastering graphic design software. A project carried out is expected to have a high selling value. Therefore, many designers explore features to produce good work.
In this meeting, I will try to discuss it, with the article titled How to Make Cut Text Effect in Illustrator. We will try to explore text that is just plain writing by giving it a truncated effect. In a simple way and using simple tool features, we will try to change the appearance of text.
What are the methods and results like? Continue following the tutorial until it’s finished. Just so you don’t get confused, we’ll try to practice. Friends, you can open Adobe Illustrator on your computer or laptop. Follow the steps for creating a clipped text effect in Illustrator below:
- Create a new A4 landscape size worksheet (29.7 x 21 cm).
- Type text in a free font but make sure you use an attractive font (here I use the Cooper Black font). Then increase the font size and color it black.
- Lower the opacity of the black text to 50%.
- Rotate the text with a few rotations of around 30.
- Create a black box using a rectangle > lower the opacity of the color so that the text layer underneath is visible > then position the box to cut off the text in the middle.
- Convert the text by > Text selection > object > expand > expand panel appears > check list of object and fill columns > ok.
- Select the text and cut box > click the shape builder tool > press alt + move the mouse to the part that is not needed until it looks like this.
- Still in position with the shape builder tool and the object still selected > drag the top piece of text from start to finish, like a red line.
- Still in position with the shape builder tool and the object still selected > drag the bottom piece of text from start to finish, like a red line.
- Select all the top pieces of text then group > then return the opacity to 100%.
- Select the bottom text then return the opacity to 100%.
- Make the text background blue and place it below the text.
- Change the text to white and slide the bottom piece of text to the left so that it looks like it has been cut off.
- Select the top piece of text > go to the window menu > gradient > linear type.
- Change the position of the gradient as desired by clicking the gradient tool on the left of the toolbox> then drag the direction of the desired gradient, drag from the starting point to the ending point. This is the final result.
Those are my tips and tricks on How to Make Cut Text Effect in Illustrator in Illustrator. The example above is simple, the shape and model can be developed further. Hopefully, it will be useful and good luck trying, see you in the next tutorial with a discussion of the latest and most updated material.
