Illustrator: Text Underline ((free))

Then she underlined the name of her file with a single, shaky, hand-drawn red line. It was a signature. It was a step.

She deleted it. Then, instead of using the text tool, she picked up her Wacom pen. She zoomed in until the words were giants. illustrator text underline

She took it.

It thickened, pressing hard into the tablet, creating a dark, ink-well swell under the ‘a’ in ‘afraid’. That was the weight of the mother’s last goodbye. The press of memory. Then she underlined the name of her file

Elara had been a professional illustrator for twelve years. She could render feathers that looked soft enough to blow away, eyes that held the precise humidity of a coming storm. But for the last six months, her pen had felt like a lie. She deleted it