I’ve only recently been using this Illustrator feature, but I’ve found it to be very useful for really precise drawing. In my case, when I draw fonts. I want to show you how to use the Illustrator “Average” feature to get perfect point alignment during drawing.

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Hey everyone, today I’ve got 5 unique textures I’ve pulled from my archives. Click on the thumbnail to bring you to the Flickr page where you can download each one at full resolution. Enjoy!

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Today’s brush set is a collection of 5 max-resolution trees and branches. They work great as corner elements or just adding some quick abstract lines to your designs. Each brush is at least 2400px in width. Enjoy!

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Hi everyone, I’ve got a great treat for you today. These 5 gutted book cover textures are each around 3300×5000 pixels in size. They are large enough to give you the freedom to only use certain sections, or to use in your large-scale print projects. Enjoy!

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This Illustrator quick tip was requested by Chris. Chris asks, “I want to make a global change to the FONT or STYLE of a bunch of text boxes (each with different text inside them) at once. Is there a way to do this?” As a matter of fact, there are a couple different solutions, both of which take no time at all, however, graphic styles must be applied differently, but we can take care of all of the font formatting with ease. Let’s get started.

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This Friday’s freebie is a set of 10 maximum resolution (2500×2500) duct tape Photoshop brushes. They will provide a fast and easy way of adding some unique surfacing to your project. If you like these brushes, check out my duct tape texture pack over at Valleys In The Vinyl. Enjoy!

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In this, Part 3 of my Fontlab Studio video series, I will be showing you exactly how to make ligatures. Ligatures are a great way to automatically combine one or more characters into a single glyph, making your font more versatile and feature rich. Ligatures are important because of the way certain letters fit together, and I want to show you how to make your own. Fontlab Studio is a very robust program, and the steps involved in getting ligatures to work, aren’t immediately apparent, so I’m going to share what I’ve learned so far…

Fontlab Studio – Part 3: Ligatures from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.

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