1 Reply Latest reply: Jun 4, 2009 6:39 AM by Wade_Zimmerman RSS

    text with top object mesh - what else?

    lister110@hotmail.com Community Member

      Hi everyone,

       

      I am working on a label where the text needs to curve around and aslo enlarge and is curves. I can acheive this with some warping which you can see

       

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      now this is ok but I would like text to contain the lighter grey area, but the warping never seems to hug the curves precisly. So I thought about make with top obect, but this seems to mess the type completely as the mesh doesnt follow the angle of each side. Is there a way to get this type to fit better using another technique?

       

      ai file is attached if anyone wants a look..

       

       

       

      Thanks

       

       

       

      lister

        • 1. Re: text with top object mesh - what else?
          Wade_Zimmerman Community Member

          Do you mean like this? If so, Select the text, in the appearance panel click on the
          characters item to bring up the fill and strake select the fill color you want. I change the warp a little bit as well.

           

          Now for the light gray area you have simply select it then in the appearance panel give it a new fill and with the eyedropper
          select the beige color to color it the background color.

           

           

           

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