Illustrator - Nothing aligns

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Hi, im trying to make a nice simple logo, but I cant get different letters to line up properly. Heres a few screenshots…

In this example, I’m trying to join up some letters, but my connector shape wont fit the size of the letter. It will either be too thin or too fat:

After that failing, I tried twisting a letter on its side to join the letters up like that, but even doing that its as if they have their own grids.

Any ideas? Just as a note, this was happening before I turned on the grids.

Thanks!

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My suggestion would be, firstly, to create outlines of the shapes (if you haven’t already) and scale the whole lot way up. Working at a much bigger size gives much finer control of things like that.

Then resize down to suit.

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Check your Snap settings. You can turn them off or adjust them to suit how you work. The other option is to use snap to guides and then use custom guides only where you need them.

You can also use the Align palette to help you out as well.