Adobe Illustrator - How to Prepare Fonts for Your Laser

Welcome back to my channel! In today's video, I'll be showing you how to make your fonts laser-ready. We'll cover everything from creating outlines, adding strokes, to expanding the outlines to ensure your fonts come out perfectly every time.
🔹 What You'll Learn:
Creating Outlines: Transform your text into scalable vector paths.
Adding Strokes: Enhance the visibility and precision of your fonts.
Expanding Outlines: Ensure the final cut is clean and accurate.
Make sure to watch the entire video to get all the tips and tricks you need to perfect your laser cutting projects!
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Time Stamps:
0:00-0:15 Intro
0:16-1:37 Creating Text Outlines
1:38-3:14 Uniting Text
3:15-5:29 Adding a Stroke to Text
5:30-5:51 Outro

[@veronicabonilla7086]

You were reading my mind! I want to make some stakes for birth month plants we bought my mom for Mothers Day to identify which grandkid each plant corresponds to and knew that it wouldn’t be as easy as typing out text!

[@LoBoDesigns]

Yayy! Mind-reading skills in tact! 🤣🔮🎉

[@ThatMomWithALaser]

Ohh I didn’t know you can just copy and paste into LB. That’s awesome. So the letters are not automatically welded to eachother? IDK why I have such a hard time wrapping my head around what a stroke it. I don’t like is. 🤣 Thank you for the tutorial! I’m starting to get more comfortable with AI finally!

[@LoBoDesigns]

You're correct, ma'am! 😎 In LB, the text welds itself, but in AI, you have to Unite it as part of the design process. The copy and paste ability is one of the greatest things ever! Just make sure you have your DPI in LB set to 72 and not to 96. It's in the File Settings screen!