Adding Line to Inside of Letter

[emalee]

Is it possible to change a letter into a line or add a line to the middle of a letter, like in the picture, in Affinity Designer? Thanks!

 

[firstdefence]

The easiest option is to find fonts with this feature called inline and hairline, other than that you would have to draw the lines with the pen tool. 

In the image below, the first font is called Lato and the second is called Monserrat, both have hairline styles, below those are examples of how they look with a stroke applied. Some fonts fair better when doing this and Lato is an example of a font adding a stroke poorly, the reason for this is that font actually has a curve on the top edge which is hard to see unless you zoom in a lot  this can be tweaked but it is easier to just use the Monserrat font which looks better.

Few examples of Inline fonts: https://www.dafont.com/fr/search.php?q=inline

Few examples of hairline fonts: https://www.1001fonts.com/hairline-fonts.html?page=2&items=10 

[v_kyr]

Another way is to perform some centerline tracing (with some third party tracing tool) for the desired text ...

... and then to reuse that text vectorization in Affinity and to perform some further stroking around that. This is font independent since you work with traced/vectorized curves then.

[emalee]

8 hours ago, firstdefence said:

The easiest option is to find fonts with this feature called inline and hairline, other than that you would have to draw the lines with the pen tool. 

In the image below, the first font is called Lato and the second is called Monserrat, both have hairline styles, below those are examples of how they look with a stroke applied. Some fonts fair better when doing this and Lato is an example of a font adding a stroke poorly, the reason for this is that font actually has a curve on the top edge which is hard to see unless you zoom in a lot  this can be tweaked but it is easier to just use the Monserrat font which looks better.

Few examples of Inline fonts: https://www.dafont.com/fr/search.php?q=inline

Few examples of hairline fonts: https://www.1001fonts.com/hairline-fonts.html?page=2&items=10 

Awesome, thanks so much for the info and help

 

[emalee]

6 hours ago, v_kyr said:

Another way is to perform some centerline tracing (with some third party tracing tool) for the desired text ...

... and then to reuse that text vectorization in Affinity and to perform some further stroking around that. This is font independent since you work with traced/vectorized curves then.

Good to know this is also an option. Thanks so much for your help! I'll give these a try