Appearance stroke offset not possible

[aleksik]

Is this for real? No option of offsetting another fill or stroke on appearance panel? Not going to use drop shadow since it's not vector, cant offset contour tool either, copy/paste method is too time consuming especially when you get revisions from customers and you have to edit multiple texts...

What I want to do is to have a non-destructive workflow for creating what I have on photo 01.png

Matt Searston, Product expert of Affinity suggests on his article about multi strokes to perform the technique as follows: "The basic white blocky drop shadow is easily achieved by duplicating the whole layer and giving it a bold while fill, then by dragging this new layer underneath our previous one and nudging the design a little to the left, it gives us the simple 3D effect we were looking for." (attachment 02.png)

Of course you can get it done like that, but let's face it it's not the most cost effective way of working.

 

Does anyone have any better ideas?

 

[dominik]

5 hours ago, aleksik said:

Is this for real? No option of offsetting another fill or stroke on appearance panel?

Hello @aleksik and welcome to the forum.

you are correct. The offset of a stroke in the appearance panel is currently not implemented. 

The above given technique by Matt Searston is how to do it currently. Yes, it's not the most effective way. Feel free to post a request in the Feedback forum.

Cheers,
d.