From the course: Illustrator 2025 Essential Training

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Text to vector

Text to vector

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at how we can create content from text in Illustrator. Let's begin with a rectangle. We're going to do that pretty much all three occasions we're going to be working in this file, and I'm just going to draw one here, like so, from side to side, like that. There we go. Something like that is grand. I might even go to the trouble of centering it on the artboard. There we go. It was nearly there. Anyway, okay, get that to a size that you're happy with to use, okay? And what we can then do is come down to this option, okay, in the contextual task bar, Generate Vectors. You can also see that down at the bottom of the Properties panel if you're not using the context task bar. So let's go ahead and do that. And then we get an area for our prompt. We can get some prompt inspiration if we need it. If we do that, it will give us some various different things here that we can click on to do that and get some experience with it. But we're going to type something…

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