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Adobe Illustrator tips & tricks: Creating a dotted line (example: stamp)

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In this training I want to get straight to the point, in the truest sense of the word: I want to create an outline consisting of dots. How can I do that? Not that easy.

For example, I create a rectangle (1). Then I select the contour control panel(2), where I can make all kinds of settings.

Adobe Illustrator tips & tricks: Creating a dotted line (example: stamp)

To get the points, I first click on the Dashed line checkbox (1). This is already preset for me: Dash 0 pt and Gap 8 pt. (2) Of course, it doesn't look nice, because these are not nice circles.

Adobe Illustrator tips & tricks: Creating a dotted line (example: stamp)

To achieve this, I change the end: it should be rounded (1). When I do this, the circles appear. Here I can still say how the outline should be aligned, inside or outside (2), and so on.

It is also possible to set that the corners are not omitted (3).

Adobe Illustrator tips & tricks: Creating a dotted line (example: stamp)

I can also make use of this if I want to create a stamp, for example. This means that if I fill the whole thing here with orange, for example, and set the outline to white, it will look something like a stamp. So it's very simple. Great, quick and to the point.

Adobe Illustrator tips & tricks: Creating a dotted line (example: stamp)