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Love to see an article with tips on using layered fonts

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    • January 10, 2017 at 1:07 am #91102
      Scott Falkner
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      Layered fonts are increasingly popular, and there are some descent ones that are free. But boy are they a pain to work with. God help you if you need kerning. I’d love to see some professional tips on using them, or a discussion about them. Better still would be a script or plug in that would make it easy to set one instance, then with a command make the necessary copies and style them appropriately.

      As it is I set one instance using, if possible, a hybrid on the font — one that has fill, stroke, and shadow. Once I’m satisfied I switch to the selection tool and apply style 1 with a shortcut, copy in place (Option Down arrow, then Up arrow), apply Style 2 with a shortcut, and so on, building from the bottom up. I’m rubish at scripting, so manual is the only way right now. So far I haven’t felt the need to isolate each style to its own layer.

    • January 10, 2017 at 7:03 am #91111
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Cool idea for an article!
      One option to speed up editing might be to use the Linked Text feature… hm…

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