: Splitting a vectorized image of letters into individual letters I'm trying to digitize a handwritten font. In various tutorials, it says to ungroup and then click on the rectangular background's

@Lee3735518

Since this is a jpeg, you will have to turn each letter into a vector.

The quick way but not very good way of turning a jpeg into a vector is by going to Object -> Image Trace -> Make.



Red: You can then select Image Trace Panel to fine tune the selection. This will bring up a window where you can select options so Illustrator knows how you want the image trace to work.

Green: Once you have messed with the Image Trace Panel, you can then expand the image. Press Expand.

Once you pressed expand, you can then select the object/group and right click -> ungroup. You will now have each letter own its own.

However the results are less than desired for small images.

See results





Another option would be to trace the individual fonts with the pen tool P. You can set the anchor points and trace over your font image. This will be a lot more time consuming but you will get much better and consistent results.



There are some online converters out there that will transform text into a font but I imagine they will not be any better than image trace from illustrator.

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