Affinity Publisher: Heroes Legend Hollow

[Pyanepsion]

Hello.

The font “Heroes Legend Hollow.ttf” is an outline font. I would like to be able to change the colour of the background (the background is transparent by default). How do I do this?

Thank you for your explanations.

https://www.dafont.com/heroes-legend.font

Heroes Legend Hollow.afpub

[Alfred]

The ‘background’ doesn’t comprise shapes with a transparent fill: there’s simply nothing there. If you want both a fill and a stroke, use ‘Heroes Legend’ instead of ‘Heroes Legend Hollow’.

You could write the text using ‘Heroes Legend’, duplicate the layer and change the font for the new copy to ‘Heroes Legend Hollow’, but I can’t see any advantage in doing it that way.

[Pyanepsion]

Thank you, Alfred.

I was asking because my client's graphic designer said he had used the Heroes Legend Hollow.ttf version. He works with the Adobe suite which I am no longer familiar with. In my software for working with fonts, I don't actually find any background.

[Alfred]

1 minute ago, Pyanepsion said:

In my software for working with fonts, I don't actually find any background.

No, you wouldn’t find one. The transparent part of a glyph in an outline font is like the counter (‘hole’) in a glyph for ‘O’ or similar: it’s just a smaller contour with reverse direction, which tells the rendering software to subtract that shape from the larger one.

[PaulEC]

You could use Affinity Photo, rasterize  the text, then use the Flood Fill tool to fill the letters with white (or whatever colour you want) then you can put a coloured background behind it. Obviously this means that you can no longer edit the text and, being rasterized, it may not be as sharp as it was. Also, of course, it does mean getting AP, if you don't already have it., but I think this is about the only way to get the effect you want.