This is a short article to bring attention to greatly underused feature of Adobe Illustrator: Pathfinder.

This palette is not even initially visible in the standard Illustrator layout, which is a shame, since it is probably one of the most-used features in my workflow. The dialog looks like this:

and can help you create lots of cool effects. The following example was made super easily using the pathfinder.

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