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The final layer on your logo is Type. In order for your text to show up in all websites; even those that do not recognize your font choice, you will need to convert your text type to a shape.
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Now we need to add our type.
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I want the type to be a soft yellow.
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Which is not in our swatch palette so we can create a new swatch for that.
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I'll hit OK and gonna drag this into our color group so we have that.
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See.
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The font I'm going to be using is called Lotto again, in regular.
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I want it to
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be all caps.
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And I want to scale this down, so I'm going to hold down
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SHIFT as I constrain proportions and sort of center that up.
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Ooh, that's nice.
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Okay.
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One last thing.
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You wanna go ahead and convert your text to outlines or shapes so
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that when this file is moving around to different owners,
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they don't also need to have a font, they just need the file.
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So to convert this to an outline, We'll go to object expand.
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It's going to ask you if you want to expand the fill and we'll say yes and what
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that does is it turns it into shape data rather than have any font data in there.
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Okay.
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And also what we're gonna do is right behind it, add a highlight color.
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So I'm going to create a background
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by drawing a rectangle the size of my artboard.
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Going to make it this nice blue color, okay.
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And I'm going to move it down.
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Command open bracket, we'll bring that all the way down to the bottom,
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I'll hit command two to lock it, and I'll just scale this up to make it pretty.
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This is gonna be our logo, so I'll name it in our layers panel.
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And this is our reference, of course.
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Lock that, and hide that for now.
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And next we will be putting this all together in the page mockup.
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See you there.
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