[Editor’s note: This plugin looks useful to illustrators wanting a more free form calligraphic touch for their artwork. Plugin allows variable width strokes along existing artwork objects in Adobe Illustrator. PC-only at present. If you’ve used it, please leave a comment on this post. Screenshots below detail work flow.]
Republished from Zero-one.
Visit their site to get demo version of plugin.
Typography and calligraphy rediscovery!
Simple plug-in help you get rich typography and calligraphy in a few click. Now available for Adobe Illustrator CS, CS2 and CS3. [Editor’s note: will prob. work in CS4, too.]
Live Pen features include:
Create your first calligraphy stroke with Live Pen World-New Features Digital Natural Drawing Moving Pen Anchor Simple Adding or Deleting Pen Anchor Pens Library |
Tags: adobe, art, caligraphy, cs4, illustrator, pen, plugin, typography, variable width stroke, zero one
Wow,
This is incredible for us font designers. Thanks for the heads up. This is a “must-buy” for me.
Keep up the great blogging,
-J
Cool tool!