Vintage Vector Text Effect recreated in AD v2

[BlueLiner]

I have been playing around with styles lately making a bunch for different email marketing campaigns I have been working on. I started off here on the forums to see what others have done and what is possible. In doing so, I came across a post from the pre v2 archive section of the forums from someone looking for a style to recreate an effect in Affinity Designer. See the original post here.

I think I have come close just casually playing with it and I thought I would share the style here (See attached v2 AD Style). Here is the original:

When I make styles for use with text, I like to design it with the text but then apply to a shape then save style from the shape so the font is not saved with it unless I typically use that font with the style.

Below is a single v2 style applied to a font I have called "yellowtail" (Not sure where I got it, probably w/CorelDRAW). I then added the border around the text and the tail. I will show both.

Just the style applied:

With added tail, just drawn with the pen tool with same style applied) and an underlying layer under the text.

I have attached a copy of the tail as well for those who are not comfortable with the bezier pen tool.

I hope someone finds this useful. With In AD v2 more is possible in "styles" than v1 and I encourage more "Styles" creation and sharing

Cheers!

 

Blueliner Vintage (AD v2).afstyles

Tail for Vintage Txt.afdesign

[softsound]

This is such a nice style, thank you for making it free!

[BlueLiner]

You are very welcome. I am glad you like it.

[deepblue]

I really like the style. It's my first
Style that I imported. Thank you for sharing.

Can you show me how you created this style?

[BlueLiner]

The best way would be to sort of disassemble what I did. In Affinity Designer, write some text like "Vintage" and choose a font for it like I used, although it can create a nice effect on many fonts, and then apply the style to it. Next go to layers and the Vintage Layer and click on FX to open up the "Layer Effects" panel. Layer Effects is the secret sauce. Click on each item with a check box to see how the layer was modified by the effect. Take note that the "Scale with Object" box is checked. This is very important with styles as when text or objects get resized, the effect will not size properly if this is not checked and you may get poor looking results when you scale vectors.

A good challenge is when you seem some stylized text you like, say on a website or in an email your received, try and recreate it using the Layer Effects. Some things can't be done solely with layer effects but you would be surprised what you can do. Keep in mind styles retain fills and strokes too so you can do some cool stuff there too. Make sure your stokes are also set to scale with object.

Here are some examples of ones I have made.