How to fill a blank spot in a font ?

[Aleksi]

Hello fellow Affinity users,

   I am looking for a way to fill an empty spot of a font with color, and remove the actual font, and having only the empty part of it filled with color. Let me show you a screenshot to make this comprehensible.

I used a font, the letter "i". I wish to remove the actual font, but i would like the empty center part to be filled with color. Is this possible ?

Note: i have both ADesigner & APhoto.

Cheers,

Aleksi.

[iconoclast]

Hi Aleksi!

This should work if you simply select the empty spaces of the single characters with the Magic Wand (don't actually know it's name in Affinity's Tool Bar, maybe "Flood Select Tool"?) and fill the selections with the colour you like on a separate empty layer. After that you simply can remove the text layer or make it invisible.

[joe_l]

16 minutes ago, Aleksi said:

Is this possible ?

I don't know your used font. Perhaps converting text to curves, ungrouping and dividing the curves and after that removing the unwanted parts could work for you.

[Aleksi]

Hello iconoclast,

   Thank you very much, that did it ! Easier than i thought. I learned a new trick ! 🙂

Cheers !

[PixelPest]

If it´s still a font annd you want it in vector I´d go:

1. Convert to curves

2. select glyph and go Layer->Geometry->Separate curves

3. Deselect inner part and hit backspace to delete remaining parts:

[Aleksi]

Thanks. The magic wand worked better, as i had all the details of the font curves. I tried the vector as your suggested, but it wasn't as precise. But thanks for the suggestion !

[PixelPest]

8 minutes ago, Aleksi said:

I tried the vector as your suggested, but it wasn't as precise.

I didn´t understand - unless it´s a raster image already - then of course my suggestion don´t make sense.

[Aleksi]

If you look at my image, the font has a nice details. Changing it to vector would make it too smooth. At least, that's what i experienced when converting stuff into vector.

What i needed was just to fill in the void of this particular font and remove the actual font. Which gave me this result:

[PixelPest]

Sure it has "nice" details: but these are vector based as with any outline font. If you want this "blurry" look add Layer Effects->GaussianBlur to it.

[Aleksi]

Ok, i'll look into it.

[iconoclast]

11 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

Sure it has "nice" details: but these are vector based as with any outline font. If you want this "blurry" look add Layer Effects->GaussianBlur to it.

But if you add a Gaußian Blur to a vector graphic, the exported result will be rastered anyway. Or am I wrong? So the advantages of vectors will be lost. Why not creating it as a pixel image right from the start?

[PixelPest]

I have no idea where it came from nor where it will go. I, on the other hand, would stay in vector as long as possible.