How to Offset Paths in Illustrator

In this tutorial, we're going to learn how to offset paths in Adobe Illustrator.

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[Connor_Zik]

Thanks so much for consistent tutorials and guides like this! As a beginner getting in to graphic design you wouldn't believe how helpful your videos are!

[matthending]

Awesome... Love your tutorials. I knew how to offset paths but had the problem with scaling, now I know what to do! Thanks man!

[vigneshgnanagirin]

Well explained and neatly said !! Thank you ...yes look forward to seeing you play with words using the offset tool to !

[canalexpres]

Muito bom. Simples, direto e prático.
Very good. Simple, straightforward and practical.

[tombnguyen]

Awesome tutorial. The Expand option was muted out, so I selected Expand Appearance and that did the trick for shape not being skewed. After that, I was able to select the Expand option. A dialog box didn't show up though. I had to edit the setting in the top toolbar to get the colors to be uniform.

[JontieDesario]

Dansky, you are the man. Love your channel!

[Flecha]

Man, you saved my life today in 2022!

As an Illustrator rookie, this video was very helpful.

Thanks so much. 😍😍😍

[prakkari]

Thank you. This was very helpful. I have one question. I have cc 2018 and it seems to be impossible to toggle off snap to pixel grid. I have tried everyting. I can not choose my line alingment wich only offers from center alingnment. The obtion is not offered in the transform panel or any other like countless tutorials say. I can get a toggle button when I choose essential classic as my enviroment, but that does not change anything.
Have you any suggestions on how to solve this? Does this depend on how you choose your new document in the beginning? A short tutorial on this would probably make a lot of people happy.

[ahmadazad]

Hey there, ThankYou for all the amazing content. You are really helpful in my graphic design journey.

[zekawdesign]

Hi, your channel is good. I don't understand all because my english level is bad. Continue like this, ty for the help.

[fanclub]

Beautiful. Yet another easy to understand tutorial.

[thevectorbox]

Very Very Thank you For Video on Offset :) . It's Going to Really Help me !!!

[threeone]

Another brilliant video! You deserve 1 Million Dollars.

[Bukulmus]

Awesome video. It is very helpful to have technical videos like this available instead of just speed tutorials. Thank you for your page it has been a huge help!

[moonzestate]

Hey Dansky, do you know how to offset to the One Side by distance? For example, I want to add 5 more pixels only to the right side of the rectangle, not to the whole shape.

[RenatoStupar]

Thank you again for great and clear videos. Cheers! ;)

[xuefeng]

Dansky, hope you can share a tutorial about "How to draw the Apple logo in Illustrator". Yes, the logo on the top left corner of your screen. Looking forward to that, thanks!

[cblaserworks]

Are you able to create an inset of an object like this? For instance if I have a complex outline but need to leave an empty area between the primary outline and the pattern I plan to add?

[sorstudios]

Every time I make an offset path it keeps the same color as the original, and when I change it the offset path color changes with I need to create a new layer for this step?

[bashirahmad]

Wish you best of luck.
Brief description good job done.