How to add text to shape a must know illustrator quick tip

• April 21st, 2021
• Illustrator

This post highlights an often-overlooked technique in Illustrator that can be incredibly useful for graphic designers, particularly when designing logos. By using this technique, you can easily add text that fits seamlessly into any shape you desire. This not only saves time but also opens up new possibilities for designs that would be difficult to achieve otherwise. Despite its usefulness, this technique is not widely known among Illustrator users, making it a hidden gem that deserves more recognition.

To achieve this technique, simply follow the steps outlined in the tutorial, which is quick and easy to follow. However, it’s important to note that there are many variations and nuances to this technique, so it’s worth experimenting with different approaches to find what works best for your specific design needs. As you become more familiar with this technique, you may even develop your own unique spin on it, further expanding its potential applications.

In conclusion, if you’re an Illustrator user looking to up your design game, this technique is definitely worth exploring. Not only does it offer a great solution for adding text to shapes, but it also provides a new avenue for creativity and experimentation. Give it a try and see what shapes and designs you can come up with!

Tutorial Details

• Program: Photoshop CC 2021
• Time estimation: Under 2 minutes
• Difficulty: Easy

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Video Transcript:

Hello, and welcome to “Creative Nerds.” So, in today’s Illustrator tutorial, we’d like to share with you how you can wrap text within a shape using Illustrator. It’s a great simple technique, which creates a great effect once finished. So, you want to start by just creating some shapes. So, we’re going to select the ellipse tool, and we’re just going to draw a circle in the middle of our canvas. We’re then going to draw a rectangle on our canvas. We’re going to select the direction tool. I’m just going to drag in these anchor points a little bit. Just create a unique shape. And there you go.

And then what you want to next do is write out our text that we want to be added to our shape. So, we’re just going to use NERDS as an example. And then we want to ensure we select Object, Expand. So, that’s okay. And then we’re going to select Edit, Copy, and then Edit, Paste on our NERDS layer. I’m just going to create an additional layer to go underneath our second shape.

And then what we want to do is drag the text into the shape, and then we want to select the shape, and we want to ensure that that’s brought to the front. So, Object, Arrange, Bring To Front. And then we’re going to highlight both layers, and select Object, Envelope Distort, and select Make With Top Object. And there you go. It’s got this really unique cool effect of the text within the shape. And we can apply this technique to any shape of our liking. We can change the font to be any font.

So, let’s try it out, again, with this shape that we created previously. So, the same principle. Drag the text on top. We want to ensure that the shape layer is at the forefront, so Arrange, Bring To Front. Select both layers once again, Object, Envelope Distort, Make With Top Object, and there you go. We created a really cool, unique text effect from that shape again. This is a really great technique and with endless possibilities based on what shape you can create. Hope this is a useful tutorial. Thanks for watching, and stay tuned to “Creative Nerds” for further quick tips on how to use Illustrator.