USING THE APPEARANCE PALETTE ON TEXT

1 For this tutorial we will use a converted to outline text. Below the text is the Appearance palette. No stroke is applied.

2 Apply a black stroke of 10 points with rounded cap and join.

3 Choose the stroke layer. Duplicate it by clicking on the Duplicate Selected Item button at the bottom.

4 Apply a colour to the new stroke layer. Change the stroke weight to 4 points.

5 Duplicate the previous layer and apply a 1 point stroke. Change the colour. Now we have a 3-colour stroke for out text that is seamless and easy to manipulate.

6 Apply a drop shadow to the text. Open Drop Shadow and click on the colour chip. To make rich black using CMYK, apply 50% to CMY and 100% to K. Press OK.

7 Finally, reduce the Opacity to 25%, set both offsets to 7 points and blur to zero.

8 Now we have some interesting text at hand.

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