Illustrator Trick #10: Stitched Text Effect

By Tony Soh Posted on December 12th, 2008

Here is a very quick trick to create a stitched text effect using strokes in the Appearance Palette. First, type your text and go to the appearance window. Set the Fill to white and Stoke to green. Drag your Stroke properties below the Fill. Open up your Stroke Palette and set weight to 2pt and remember to tick Dashed Line to create the dotted effect. Next, set the dash to 2.

Now, we will add another thick stroke around the dotted lines. Click the options in the Appearance window (the triangle at top right corner). Select Add Stroke. Drag it under the dashed stroke you have created just now. Set the Stroke to 8 and change it to grey color. And now you will get the stitched text effect as shown above. Have fun!

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krishna December 12th, 2008

Thanks for this cool tip. Tweeted this one

dn06se December 19th, 2008

yeah, this is a very cool trick. i never thought of this before. thanks for ur effort. love it…

Nicole December 28th, 2008

Another great Tutorial, I was trying it with Brushes, but only got a messy result. Thanks a lot!

Omair Rais December 31st, 2008

Thanks for the tutorials.

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joyoge designers' bookmark April 20th, 2009

nice effect I like.. thanks

Abstract Backpack April 23rd, 2009

Cool.

Thank you for the tutorials.

Illustrator Training June 19th, 2009

Just stumbled across your site, and love your work.

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