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Illustrator CS2
Turning a Regular Font into Oblique
Keep in mind that Oblique and Italic types are not the same thing! Check out Wikipedia: Oblique type for more information.
First of all, create your text.
Then select the text box with the Selection Tool, right-click and choose Transform – Shear or go to Object – Transform – Shear.
Settings » shear angle = 20° (or lower), horizontal axis checked.
The Shear effect is applied to the text box. If you want to change just one character or a group of characters you must convert the text to outlines first.
Now you can either choose to leave the text like this (which is the quick and easy-to-do method) or you can go one step forward and tweak the characters so that you get rid of weird curve distortions and correct the distance between them.
Text · Jul 31, 2006 ·