Understanding outlined text (aka why you might not be able to type/edit a body of text)
Download Adobe Illustrator from the Adobe Creative Cloud. You may need to install the Cloud on your computer to do so. Our account login lives in OnePassword.
Download our brand fonts to your computer and add them to your Mac's Fontbook
Download the particular label's AI file that you want to edit from the Beer Labels for Each Brand folder in the drive
Refer to the New Beer Form Logistics and V3 to update the information
You'll Need:
Style Name
ABV
Packaging facility address (Singlecut, IA, Brooklyn, etc)
Your QR code
The UPC
Open Illustrator. To set up the app, you'll want to add a brand library to make your life easier. Here's how.
You can find our brand colors here
You can find our logo AI files here -- *make sure you add EPS or AI file logos, not PNGs or JPEGS––you need vectors!!*
Example:
6. Make your needed changes using your Illustrator skills (how-tos above), video attached.
7. Be sure to save your work as a PDF with the QR code and UPC attached, as well as an AI file with the QR code and UPC hidden.
NOTE! Blue Label has requested we send label art on just one artboard– YARD sends them to use in large packages with a variety of pages. The AI document we send to yard should just have an artboard that looks like the image below.