gradient along curved line not side to side or up and down but following the line

[Mackenzie]

Hello! 

I am trying to make a cursive font where each of the letters is a color gradient to show where they start and end to help train reading cursive.

(it would be very cool to have a whole text like this)

but when I go to make a line with 2 color gradient it locks it in at side to side or up and down instead of following the line.

I really hope there is a way to do this. manual shading each letter would be very difficult.

thank you and best regards.

 

[firstdefence]

The option I would use would be to create a brush with a cyclic hue change.

 

Custom Brushes.afbrushes

[Mackenzie]

Thank you!

could you upload a screenshot please, I am looking every where for these options

do I got to use a different Affinity Designer program?

[Mackenzie]

 like a cool line like this

[NotMyFault]

This missing feature has been requested multiple times since 2015, but it never appeared.

You can try a few workarounds:

• create a new image brush having a simple black to white gradient horizontally (helper object in file, export selection as png)
• apply this brush to the curve
• add a gradient map adjustment 

This works in general.

gradient hor brush.afdesign

[Mackenzie]

Thank you NotMyFault, this method works easily !

I will be able to finish my project of making cyrillic cursive legible for the untrained eye

[Kobold]

Thanks from my side too! Super! But a shame that it is not part of Designer yet ......  Illustrator can do! Thats part of the reason I more often use AI now.