So having an action that would do all this for you with a simple keyboard shortcut is better. You could of course draw your rectangle, quickly apply a style, expand the appearance, and then use Pathfinder to create a single final shape. And sometimes you need just a single plain flat object with a rounded corner. Of course, these are all graphic styles with multiple fills and effects. You might even create an entire library of styles that stored different corners of an object as being rounded, for any design task. You can save this as a Graphic Style so that you could apply this with a single click. Your Appearance panel should look something like Figure 6. Repeat to add a third fill if you’d like. Change the origin point in that fill to specify another corner that should have a square corner.
Duplicate the fill and double-click the Transform effect in that fill. The corner you choose will not have a rounded corner. Now for the most important part - using the 9-point proxy, select one of the 4 corners to apply the scale from (Figure 5). In the Scale section, set both the Horizontal and Vertical values to 50%. With the new fill targeted, choose Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform. Via the Appearance panel fly-out menu, add a new fill. Choose Effect > Stylize > Round Corners and apply the effect. Had I expanded the shapes, the result would look like Figure 4. This action effectively covered up the rounded corner with a square corner. With the second fill targeted, I applied a Transform effect that applied a 50% scale to the fill, and I instructed the Transform to be applied from a specific origin point - a corner of my choice. I then added an additional fill, which didn’t have rounded corners. To make this shape, I created a normal rectangle and used the normal Round Corners effect (under the Effect > Stylize menu). With that in mind, I offer my solution for creating rectangles with a rounded corner (or three) of your choice.įigure 3 is a rectangle that has rounded corners on two opposite sides. Each offer pros and cons and each offer benefits for certain design tasks. In Illustrator (more so than just about any other program) there are always a variety of ways to accomplish any design task. And of course, once it’s a style, it’s one click to apply it. 
I can use the same technique I just employed to do just that: round any specific corner, some, or all. If you want everything to be centered, apply a Transform effect to another fill (without rounded corners) with the exact opposite settings.Īll you FreeHanders are still snickering because FreeHand can round just one corner, and opposite corners. Use horizontal movements to add rounded corners to the left or right, and vertical movements to add rounded corners to the top or bottom. Under the Move section, adjust your fill slightly so that it’s offset from the original fill.
With that fill still targeted, choose Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform. (If you’re working with text, use the Effect > Convert to Shape > Rounded Rectangle option.) Do your thing and give yourself some nice rounded corners. With the new fill targeted, choose Effect > Stylize > Round Corners. Use the Appearance panel to add a new fill. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today. Then I use the Transform effect to offset the fills slightly so that rounded corners are visible on one side only, or just on the top or bottom (Figure 2) I use one fill with a rounded corner effect applied, and one without. So how did I do it? In a nutshell, I start with a regular rectangle. (I can hear those FreeHand users giggling because FreeHand can do that.) I can’t even begin to tell you how often I hear requests from folks who want to round only some of the corners of an object in Illustrator. To complicate matters, he wanted the button style to be flexible enough that left-hand corners can be rounded, and right-hand corners can be rectangular corners, or vice versa (Figure 1). I recently got a request from someone who wanted to use Illustrator to create dynamically resizable buttons for a Web site.
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