: Dot fade pattern brush is 'squished' in corners, how do i solve this? I have created a pattern brush in illustrator, and i need it to follow this path (below) evenly, however it seems to

@Nimeshi706

If you're using a pattern brush you can define the corner tile. Just create your corner tile and alt + drag it to the corner tile of your brush in the brushes panel.

One thing to keep in mind is that your normal tile and corner tile should be the same height to keep them aligned, you can add a transparent rectangle around your tiles to make up the extra space:



I made this manually and very quickly with a bunch of circles so the alignment is off on the corners, but thats down to my sloppy placement, not a problem with the brush:



This does mean you have to predefine your corner radius, which isn't ideal, but it's the only way to prevent the distortion on corners using pattern brushes.

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@Mendez620

Unfortunately there isn't a way to do this using a brush. The size of the curve and the thickness of the border means that the outside of the the border has to cover more ground than the inside, so whatever pattern you use as your border has to warp with it.

While it doesn't solve your 'squished corners' problem, you can achieve a similar effect by using an Inner Glow and a Color Halftone.




Draw your shape, give it rounded corners and a white fill.
Go Effect > Stylize > Inner Glow and give your shape a black inner glow. Set the blending mode to Normal, the opacity to 100%.
Now select your shape and go Effect > Pixelate > Color Halftone.
Finally, select your shape and go Edit > Edit Colors > Convert to Grayscale to convert it from a four-colour halftone to a two-colour one.


The drawback is that this results in a raster pattern, not a vector one, as it uses a Photoshop effect inside Illustrator.

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