This tutorial will show you how to simulate a tackle twill look with Illustrator’s Appearance palette.
Step 1: On the artboard, add a few texts using a thick font like College from DaFont.
Step 2: Raise the tracking on the text to add space between the letters.
Step 3: Open the Appearance palette Window > Appearance (Shift F6) and add a new fill to the text. Change the new fill colour to yellow-green.
Step 4: choose the stroke of the text in the Appearance palette. Change the colour to light blue. Set the weight of the stroke to 12 pt.
Step 5: To see the yellow colour more clearly, click-and-drag the new stroke below the orange-yellow fill in the Appearance palette.
Step 6: Add another stroke to the text with the Appearance palette.
Step 7: Set the colour of the new stroke to a dark blue, the weight of the stroke to 1 pt, and add a 3 pt dash.
Step 8: Offset the dashed stroke -2 pt by applying the Offset Path effect (Effect > Path > Offset Path).
Step 9: Add a 1 pt stroke of white colour to the text and offset it by 2 pt by following the same steps as above.
Step 10: You need to add more effects to get a zig zag stitch to the white stroke. Apply the Roughen effect by navigating to Effect > Distort and Transform > Roughen which will add equidistant points to the stroke path. Add the Zig Zag effect (Effect > Distort and Transform > Zig Zag) which will zig zag all of the extra points we just added.
Step 11: Duplicate the white zig zag stroke and change its colour to medium blue.
Step 12: Adjust the offset of the new medium brown stroke to 7 pt.
Finally, click-and-drag the new yellow stroke below every other stroke and just above the text fills in the Appearance palette.
Final Result
|
|
|
|
|