00:01:23 What I want to do is create some guides
00:01:25 that will help demonstrate how things have gotten off,
00:01:29 where these letters are concerned,
00:01:30 as a function of that 20-point stroke.
00:01:33 And so I'll go ahead and press Control + R,
00:01:36 or Command + R in a Mac, in order to bring out my rulers.
00:01:39 And I'll drag a horizontal guide down
00:01:41 from the top ruler so that it snaps into alignment
00:01:44 with the top anchor point in the f,
00:01:47 which by the way notice aligns perfectly
00:01:49 with the top anchor point in the h,
00:01:52 and yet we're not seeing that alignment
00:01:53 because 10 points, that is half of that stroke,
00:01:56 pops up on the edge of the f,
00:01:59 whereas it just abruptly ends at the top of the h.
00:02:02 All right, now I'll go ahead and drag out
00:02:04 another horizontal guide from that top ruler,
00:02:07 so that it snaps into alignment
00:02:09 with the bottom of the f.
00:02:10 And notice even though that bottom anchor point
00:02:13 in the f is precisely aligned with
00:02:15 the bottom anchor point in the e,
00:02:17 we're not seeing that alignment.
00:02:19 And that's because the bottom of the f ends abruptly,
00:02:22 whereas half of that stroke continues around
00:02:24 the bottom of the e.
00:02:26 We have an even bigger problem
00:02:28 where the bottoms of the b and d are concerned,
00:02:31 because notice here as a function
00:02:34 of this half-a-line weight,
00:02:36 that's dropping down below the curved portions
00:02:39 of both letters, we're covering up the stems,
00:02:42 which come down just as far.
00:02:44 So what I'm gonna do,
00:02:45 just to make my point that much more obvious,
00:02:47 I'm gonna scroll over here just a little bit,
00:02:50 and I'm gonna hide the rulers by pressing Control + R,
00:02:52 or Command + R on a Mac.
00:02:54 And then I'll go up the the view menu, choose Guides,
00:02:56 and choose the Lock Guides command to turn it off,
00:03:00 and then I'll marquee this bottom guide right there,
00:03:03 and I'm gonna make a copy of it ten points down
00:03:06 by pressing Shift + Alt + Down Arrow,
00:03:08 that would be Shift + Option + Down Arrow on the Mac,
00:03:10 so that we now have a guide that's aligned
00:03:13 to the bottom of the curved portions of these letters.
00:03:16 And now I'll click on this top guide to select it,
00:03:19 and I'll press Shift + Alt + Up Arrow,
00:03:22 or Shift + Option + Up Arrow on the Mac,
00:03:24 in order to create a guide at the perceived top of the f.
00:03:28 All right now I'll go ahead
00:03:28 and click off the guide to deselect it,
00:03:30 and I'll return to the View menu,
00:03:32 choose Guides, and then choose Lock Guides
00:03:35 to turn the command back on,
00:03:36 and that way I won't mess up my guidelines.
00:03:39 All right now I'll return to the Select menu
00:03:41 and choose letters
00:03:43 in order to select all the letters in the document,
00:03:45 and I'll click on
00:03:46 the word Stroke up here in the Control panel,
00:03:48 and I'll switch to the Projecting Cap,
00:03:51 just so we can see what kind of difference it makes.
00:03:53 And notice that it goes ahead and extends
00:03:55 the crossbar here on the f quite nicely,
00:03:58 so that we have some nice sharp transitions,
00:04:01 but we have a few problems here in the g,
00:04:03 as well as the other letters
00:04:05 such as the d, and the b,
00:04:07 that have multiple subpaths
00:04:08 that are intersecting each other.
00:04:10 However, notice that all the letters
00:04:12 are rising to the occasion right here.
00:04:15 So we can see that the projecting cap
00:04:17 is extending all the way to that top guideline
00:04:20 as well as all the way down to the bottom guideline
00:04:23 which means that we have some decent stems
00:04:26 for our b and d in particular.
00:04:29 But what's gonna work out better all the way around,
00:04:31 is to click on the word Stroke once again
00:04:33 and switch to the Round Cap
00:04:35 in order to produce this rounded effect here.
00:04:38 That does leave us with a problem however.
00:04:40 Notice if I go ahead and scroll over here,
00:04:43 we're missing an edge down here on the left side of the h,
00:04:46 and we also have a sharp corner
00:04:48 over here on the right side of the letter e.
00:04:51 Now to demonstrate why we're having this problem on the h,
00:04:54 I'll press the A key to switch to the white arrow tool,
00:04:56 then I'll go ahead and click off the letter,
00:04:58 and I'll select this anchor point
00:05:00 as well as these other three.
00:05:02 So in other words I'm clicking on this anchor point
00:05:04 and then I'm Shift + clicking on the other three.
00:05:07 And now I'll press Shift + Right Arrow
00:05:09 to nudge those points to the right.
00:05:10 And you can see what we really have here
00:05:12 is a corner at this location.
00:05:15 And now that I've moved the points over,
00:05:17 we've reestablished this miter join,
00:05:20 but as soon as I move things back
00:05:22 we lose the miter join because our miter limit is too low.
00:05:26 And as soon as you have two segments
00:05:27 that are right on top of each other like this,
00:05:29 then it doesn't matter what you set the miter limit to,
00:05:32 your corner is gonna get beveled.
00:05:34 All right so to take care of this problem,
00:05:36 I'll return to the Select menu
00:05:37 and chose the letters command,
00:05:39 and then I'll click on the word Stroke.
00:05:41 Obviously the miter join is not gonna work out for us.
00:05:44 You could try a bevel join,
00:05:46 but it's not gonna have any effect on the h,
00:05:48 and it's just gonna slightly clip the corner on the e.
00:05:51 What we really want is the nice Round Join,
00:05:54 which is gonna give us a round corner on the e,
00:05:56 and it's gonna totally take care of our problem
00:05:58 here on the h, after which point,
00:06:00 I'll just go ahead and press the Escape key
00:06:02 to hide that panel,
00:06:03 and I'll press Control + zero, or Command + zero,
00:06:05 to center my zoom.