A stylized heart shape is a familiar symbol. It can signify love and also a range of services and businesses—health and fitness, medical and pharmaceutical, caring, and match making.
In iWork, we can create an original heart shape in a few steps, beginning with a triangle, one of the basic geometric shapes.
The following steps describe how to turn a triangle into a heart.
We can also draw the heart with the draw tool, the last icon in the Shapes menu.
Choose the draw tool and click in an iWork document. Each new click creates a dot linked by a line to the previous dot. Four connected dots will make an angular shape. Make it editable, thus: Format | Shape | Make Editable. Then, curve the line where needed, by double-clicking the editing points.
If you want two hearts in the logo, you don't need to create a new shape from scratch. Select the heart and copy it—type Command + D. Rotate each shape slightly to create a "meeting hearts" effect.
There are a number of heart symbols in the character palette that can be used for logos or clip art.
To open the character palette, go to Edit | Special Characters.
Heart symbols are in Character Palette | Symbols | Miscellaneous. Click on a symbol and drag it into an iWork document. To use one of these as a graphic image, enlarge the symbol as you would enlarge text; give it a color, make a screenshot or export the document to PDF or iPhoto, and then crop.
To give the shape more substance, we can use the Gradient or Advanced Gradient fills in Graphic Inspector. Gradient Fill blends two colors within a shape. Advanced Gradient Fill allows blending of more than two colors. Click on the color well and choose the blending colors in the Colors Viewer. In this example, (the following image) there are two different shades of red on the sides and white in the middle.
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