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13. Apply the text brush to the fi rst path. Scroll down to the red-

stroked paths below the type treatments. Select the fi rst path

outline and click the new Striped Type brush in the Brushes

panel. Illustrator applies the text to the path and distorts its

letterforms to fi t the contours. (To compare this to the behav-

ior of path type, which does not distort, see the sidebar “Path

Type versus the Text Brush” on page 300).

14. Reduce the path’s line weight. The text looks great with one

problem: The letters are too tall. Change the Stroke value on

the left side of the control panel to 0.7 point to size the letters

so they appear more proportional, as in Figure 9-42.

15. Apply the text brush to the second path. Select the next path

down with the black arrow tool. As a change of pace, click the

item that reads

Basic in the control panel, then choose

the Striped Type brush from the pop-up panel.

16.

Flip and scale the brushstroke. The text comes in upside-down

(see Figure 9-43), indicating that I must have drawn the path

from right to left. To account for this, click the

icon at the

bottom of the Brushes panel. In the Stroke Options ( Art Brush)

dialog box, turn on both the Flip Along and Flip Across check

boxes. Reduce the Width value to 70 percent. And purely for

the sake of variety, change the Colorization Method to Hue

Figure 9-42 .

Figure 9-43 .

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