

Now grab the Direct Selection Tool (keyboard shortcut: A) and click and drag over one of the corners of the square to select it, then click the Remove selected anchor points icon in the menu at the top of your toolbar. To make a right triangle in Illustrator, grab the Rectangles Tool (keyboard shortcut: M) then hold Shift on your keyboard and click and drag on the canvas to make a perfectly symmetrical square. Making right triangles in Illustrator requires a different approach than making the standard types of triangles outlined above.

You can also drag entire sides rather than just the corners.Ī right triangle is a triangle in which one of the corners is at a 90 degree angle. If you’d like to further edit your triangle into a scalene triangle, you can do so by grabbing the Direct Selection Tool (keyboard shortcut: A) and clicking and dragging each individual corner to set that at your desired angle. If you’d like to make your triangle into an isosceles triangle, simple grab the Selection Tool (keyboard shortcut: V) and click and drag on the edges to resize them to your preferences.Ī scalene triangle is a triangle in which none of the three sides are equal in width. An equilateral triangle is a triangle in which all three sides are equal in length.Īn isosceles triangle is a triangle in which only 2 of the sides are equal in length. Once you click OK, an equilateral triangle will be generated on your canvas.
