How to Create this Amazing Ripped Text in Illustrator

Ruslan Galba
@hellotegra
Published in
3 min readJun 19, 2020

How to Create this Amazing Ripped Text in Illustrator 💥

Courtesy of @vector_ai

1️⃣ Type your letter

2️⃣ Create a line of suitable stroke size. Select Roughen effect in Distort & Transform tools.

3️⃣ Duplicate the line all the way to the length of your text. Select all the lines and expand it, then group them.

4️⃣ Select only text and expand the text. Overlap the text with the lines. Then select all and click the divide tool in pathfinder tools.

5️⃣ Now use the Magic wand tool and select any of the red lines. Then press delete.

Step 01

Type your letter. Try to choose a bold font for best result.

Step 02

Create a line of suitable stroke size. Now, select Roughen effect in Disort & Transform tools.

Step 03

Duplicate the line all the way to the lenght of you text. Select all the lines and expand it, then group them.

Step 04

Now select only text and expand the text. Overlap the text with the lines. Then select all and click the divide tool in pathfinder tools.

Step 05

Now use the Magic wand tool and select any of the red line. Then press delete. And There you have it.

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Ruslan Galba
@hellotegra

Increasing revenue for DTC brands via Facebook / Google ads 🚀Growth Strategist 🤘 Founder @hellotegra growth team 🤖 $5M+ profitable ad spend in 2020