This article shows you the steps to making spiral words in Illustrator. It also shows you how to add color and gradient to the words.

Every aspect of type in Adobe Illustrator can be treated as a vector-drawing object with a fill and a stroke, or even a gradient fill, while preserving the ability to edit the text later. Text ...

Mirror Text To create a mirror image of text in Illustrator, start by either entering the text using the Type tool or selecting the existing text you want to mirror.

In a previous article, I went into some elaborate detail about how to create and use the Gradient Mesh feature in Illustrator CS4 ( ). Today, in this second of a two-part series about gradient ...