How to Skew or Slant Text | Illustrator Tutorial

In this Illustrator tutorial, learn how to slant text by skewing or shearing with the transform options!

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[yaninyunus]

this saved me so much time in editing a type

[lksaadmin]

much easier than perspective tools...thanks

[trent]

Really cool tip! I was manually doing this with warping but I think your way looks better.

I also looked for a reversible option but I didn't find much. However, if you copy and paste the text itself, it will go back to its original form. To clarify, this is copying the actual letters by selecting them with the text tool, NOT copying the entire Text object itself (the latter will copy all the transforms, too).

[lukasemory]

People like you are awesome. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[ValdairLeonardo]

Hi :)
I believe if you go with the text selected to:
Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform
And set the anchor point to the bottom left, you can play with the rotation angle.
The effect will be in the Appearance Panel and the text still editable

[kateb]

OMG love you so much, I had to figure out this really quick for school, i was like struggling for 15 on this and then u came as a flying angel. I know im super extra about this rn but I'm super happy.

[LaurenRoth-morv]

THANK YOU so much! You have a great delivery that is clear, concise and user-friendly!

[BowlMasterAsh]

God damn it, I can't believe you can do this automatically... I'm such a fuckin chump

[bernardoandrade]

Dude, you have no idea how it help me, thank you so much

[CampingforCool]

I don't understand why they can't just have a slant text slider like they do in indesign.

[blueghost]

How do you get ride of having to hold shift when scaling text? Photoshop did it.

[maryqc]

This is not a solution.. the text comes off the line in a weird way so that it doesn't look right.

[joshuasantacruz]

I'm upset I didnt know about this before but thank you for showing me how easy it is!

[comicartst]

to do that I used to use.. Effect> Distort&transform> free distort..

[ashleycameron]

Love Good Mythical Morning! So I stumbled onto this video (great by the way, love your vibe) for obvious, slanted text reasons but because you mentioned Good Mythical Morning I was like op! He's a real one and I need to subscribe. haha

[zainabmuzzafar]

Which software is this .... Paint, Net ?

[evonne-arcaneforge]

Have you figured this out with text on a wavy path? I've been trying this technique and it just doesn't look right, I'm going mad trying to work it out. Thanks for this video anyway, very useful for other projects.

[sugarrushaandc]

yes! I knew this was supposed to be easy. Thanks for the tip!

[steper]

To edit it I just go to the appearance panel and double click on appearance itself and then it lets me edit the angle again. The box appears and it lets me change the degree or angle of rise or shear that I need.

[briannaneeteson]

When I do the same thing you do in the video I don't get the same result, My text does not lift upwards on an angle, it just angles it within the original shape of the text box or a bit below? What am I doing wrong?