Serif fonts (or “Roman” fonts) are the ones with the swishes, and sans serif typefaces are the ones that don’t. Western fonts and typefaces fall into one of two identifiable categories; either they have small features at the end of strokes to distinguish each character, or they don’t. Put simply, Times New Roman is a serif font ; Arial is sans serif. Sans serif fonts (also known as “gothic” script) have become the acceptable standard. At Saffron, we use a sans serif font for this blog, our website, our courses, even our internal communications. Am I complaining? No way. Why not?

You could just use one of the default arrows, but you don’t get that swish. Then I edited the points to create more of a swish look. The other day I was looking at the AI Vault web site. ran across a tutorial on creating an envelope icon. It’s a great tutorial and relatively easy to do. However, the tutorial is targeted for Illustrator users. Create the envelope. Create a rectangle.