Illustrator Tutorial: Retro Text Effect with Concentric Stripes

In today's Adobe Illustrator tutorial I'll show you how to create a retro text effect with colourful concentric stripes. Illustrator's Offset Path command produces the basic effect, but we will eliminate the tedious process of adding each outline individually with the help of an Action, so you will be able to fill an entire poster with this retro stripe effect within seconds.




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[TravisTraps]

You are a god send. I was literally racking my head against the wall last night looking for a tutorial like this, but didnt even know what the effect was called, and was having a shit time getting frustrated.


Logged on this morning and saw this video instantly. Kinda bizarre to be honest, but THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[RedMcc]

Holy Crap. SSSoo many tutorials overcomplicate things. This was so flipp'n simple. The addition of the Action was brilliant.

[ethannicholls]

Awesome, before I clicked on the video I didnt expect to learn anything new, but this is a much better method than what I would have done!

[pilgrim]

Only Chanel I clicked the bell on. Love your content!

[midnightserenity]

I have been following you from quite some time. I still learn a lot from you. I made some concentric stripe posters for my iPad and iPhone :D So, Thank you very much for this amazing tutorial.

[KookieKrumble]

So helpful. As always! Simple and to the point makes your videos so much easier to

[KellyNewcomerArt]

Thanks for this fun and joyfully colored tutorial

[TheUnholyPosole]

Ah ha ha ha!!! Now I know your secret Tyler Spangler. Your style is mine.

[harjith.d.bubber]

That's a great tutorial. Thank you

[pucksandpaperbacks]

Tried this out. But, with a longer message and everything just looks jumbled together now when I do "offset path". Any tips on how to fix this issue?

[dantescarano]

Would anyone know how to animate the whole action process, is that something that could be done in AE?

[pavjanda]

HELP! I'm trying to achieve the same effect but using a png instead of text... any idea how I can generate a path from my png's outline? Would be a MASSIVE help! Ta

[maitreyibahuguna]

So it doesn't collectively become a path. For example it's becoming a separate path for "Dream" and separate for "on" Help please.