To the users of the illustrator software to the detailed analysis to share a flat style of navigation to create a text effect of the tutorial.
First, how to use the AI in the pattern spread the background, and modify the pattern style
Second, any font needs their own reprocessing, it is worth serious treatment of each anchor point to modify
Third, how to make a manage pattern brush
First, the production background
Open the AI and create a new 600*600px document. Draw a rectangle with the same size as the document, fill it blue, and close the stroke. Because we are sailing style theme, Blue is the first choice of color. Of course, in the actual project, you can also change other colors, if it is a food theme, orange and red are a good choice. If it is a natural theme, then Green is not to ignore the color. Specific background color selection, we will stay to the future use of color to explain in detail.
Solid color background may be enough, for the flat style, most of the background is solid color. But here, we want to be a little richer and add a little bit of texture to the background. Let's build another layer on top of the blue background layer, which can be any color at the same time, open the swatches panel, open the Swatch Library in the palette, and select one of the patterns. The path to the open pattern is "open Swatch Library > Pattern > Basic graphics > Texture". You can refer to the figure below.
Select the pattern "sand" in the pattern. At this point, we will find that the texture of the pattern is filled with black, but what if I want a white texture? Yes! We need to expand the pattern first.
After the expansion, you will see the pattern in the texture into the path, but still can not directly replace the color of the sand. We also need to click on the "Edit content" icon on the left side of the top toolbar, and then the sand becomes the content that can be edited for us. You will find that the fill color is black at this time.
By turning the fill color into white, we finished making the background image. You can also reduce the transparency of the pattern background to 50%, making it more hazy.
Second, the text typesetting
In fact, this part of the text is relatively simple, as long as the corresponding text content to be selected for font selection, appropriate layout can be.
The theme I designed here was sailing, so I prepared the words "swim." Deep Sea ", and then Attach" ifeiwu.com "Domain name address. Before you start, you can use a pencil to explore the best design typography on paper.
I choose the Chinese font is "founder Coarse qian Body", the English font is a handwritten style of "Mission Script", the two fonts have strokes of the joints are relatively mellow characteristics, Chinese more formal, and English close to handwriting, more warm. It looks like the style matches the harmony. and the ifeiwu.com domain name uses is "Futura LT", this kind of English typeface has the future body to say, looks concise and clear, in the flat wind often is used.
First use the word tool to write "swim" Two words, these two words I arranged the size of 230pt, it arranged in the upper left, and the border line perfectly fitting. This way of composition, the full expansion of the internal space, so that the layout of the entire composition more extensive. The text color is white.
Then write the English font, placed in the lower part of the Chinese. The size of "Deep sea" is 120pt and the size of "ifeiwu.com" is 16pt. The text of the Deep Sea is right-aligned with Chinese, and then the domain name address is placed in the right margin of the lower part of the Deep letter.
Here you can see that my typography uses a considerable area of white space. The text is mainly concentrated in the upper left. This gives the space more tension. For White is the topic we want to discuss in the future, now please focus on the text.
Select the text, and then click "Create Contour", at which point you can enlarge the path of the text and use the Pen tool to decorate any place you are dissatisfied with. This process takes more patience.
Third, the production of rope
Next, I want to add a knotted rope at the bottom, like a sailing ship's cable. You might think this is a simple step, in fact, the ropes we're going to make are not drawn, but we can use them infinitely by making a pattern brush. This once and for all things, the earlier period is relatively complex.
Draw a rounded rectangle with a long width of 3.8px*6.6px and a radius of 5px. The copy rectangle moves 6 pixels to the right, and then moves again. This arranges three rounded rectangles.
Tilt the three graphs down to 17 degrees to the right.
At this point, make sure you've opened the smart Guide, drawing a rectangle on both sides of the graph, and the rectangle and the left and right two shapes that intersect at the center of the graph respectively. Then open the Path Manager and click on the second icon on the left, which is "minus the top" to reshape the graphic.
Copy the left and left 22 graphics to the right for stitching, please see the diagram.
Using the Pen tool to add the anchor function and edit the path, reshape the rightmost graphic to make it a knot-like figure. It then copies and moves the knot and the shape on its left (which is also half the rounded rectangle).
Copy move to the left to do a stitching, move to the left to remember to do a vertical symmetry, and then do a horizontal direction of symmetry.
Reminder: This step in the stitching will encounter some details of the dislocation, and the solution is we do not drag the mouse graphics, using the right button to "move", the move settings are relatively small, such as 0.1 pixels such a small distance to move can be perfect.
Next, let's draw three rectangles, and the borders of the three rectangles align with the edges of the shapes. An auxiliary smart Guide is required for the operation, and the specific shape is as follows. These three rectangles should turn off the strokes, but I've opened the strokes here to show you clearly. I hope you will notice this.
At this point, we can divide the graph into three points, the left and right are one. Each part is made up of the graphic itself plus a rectangular bounding box. Let's group the three groups of graphics separately.
Select the middle group, which is the group without knots. Then go to the Brush panel, click on the icon for the new brush below, select "Pattern Brush" on the Pop-up tab, and click OK. I used the default setting in the pattern Brush's setup options to change the brush name to a rope.
After clicking OK, you build the brush of the rope, in the brush panel, you can find the "rope" this brush, but because the brush is white, so there is almost nothing to see here. Yes, that blank brush is it, you move the mouse over there, there will be "rope" brush name.
Let's pick the right one, hold down the ALT key and drag it to the right pane of the brush. The screen then pops up the brush's setup Panel. The "End Tile" in the panel becomes white, and we can choose the default, which is to click the OK button directly.
The right side of the knot after processing, the left side of the practice is similar, just hold down the "alt" button to drag on the right second grid. The screen also pops up the brush's setup panel and the "Start tile" in the panel becomes white. We reserve the default settings and click OK.
At this point, the rope brush is complete, we use the line tool, draw a straight line, and then select the line and then click on the brush panel of the rope brush, then you can see this line into a rope with a knot. At this time, the completion of the rope production, our work is accomplished.
Well, the above information is small make up to you illustrator of this software users of the detailed to create a flat navigation style text effect of the production of a tutorial to analyze the entire content of sharing, you see the users here, the brush production process is more cumbersome, but can be reused, And according to different needs to change the shape, then the following quickly to follow the small series of the tutorial themselves to make it.
