Two color outline font.

[Michiev77]

Affinity Designer. Is there a way to have a two split color outline on your font. I tried a just about everything.  It's going to warp on a different color flag. 

Edited January 26, 2021 by Michiev77
Forgot to add wording

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Michiev77.

Are you trying to do something like this

or do you want the colour changes to follow the curvature of the text?

[Guest]

I've created a sample (see 'TwoColourOutlineExample.afdesign' attached) that shows how you can easily achieve this effect with two copies with different coloured strokes, and two masks.

You could also modify the geometry by expanding the stroke/outline to a shape, and then intersect that into two parts (red/blue) using rectangles to create the separation. The original shape (without a stroke) is then stacked on top. Hopefully the example helps to illustrate the concepts. 

Serif: It would be nice to be able to group text or a collection of objects and then apply a stroke to that group as a whole rather than having it propagate to each and every object contained within the group. 

TwoColourOutlineExample.afdesign

[Alfred]

4 minutes ago, Bryan Rieger said:

you can easily achieve this effect with two copies with different coloured strokes, and two masks

You only need a mask for the top copy, since the bottom copy will be partially covered by it.

[Guest]

Just now, Alfred said:

You only need a mask for the top copy, since the bottom copy will be partially covered by it.

Obsessive compulsive me disagrees!

[G13RL]

I would simply apply a gradient to the outline (with two red and blue dots superimposed in the center). The text remains editable.

[Dazmondo77]

5 hours ago, G13RL said:

would simply apply a gradient to the outline (with two red and blue dots superimposed in the center). The text remains editable.

Thats the way to do it - I would have suggested to save as a style, first making sure you have scale with object ticked in the strokes panel, although that doesn't retain the gradient (for some reason) - so you could always drag it to your assets panel, which does retain gradients for future use and full editability  - although if its a one off for a logo or something follow Bryan Rieger recommendation 

[G13RL]

With the style, the gradient is preserved, you just have to replace it correctly through the context bar.

[Dazmondo77]

6 minutes ago, G13RL said:

With the style, the gradient is preserved, you just have to replace it correctly through the context bar.

Aaaaah I see that the gradient is still there, it just draws the gradient elsewhere on the page, a bit annoying but still usable

[G13RL]

It's a bit of a shame, however, it works directly with assets, as you pointed out.

[firstdefence]

With clipping paths you have the added benefit of wave-ability and fine edge control.