Splitting text words (e.g. SOS)

[virsto]

For the left half of the acronym SOS (leading S and left half of O in black) with a white background.  For the right half (right half of O and trailing S in white) with a black backgound. I am rather new to affinity designer 2 and thought this should be a rather easy task; but that has not been the case. I am using Designer 2.57

Edited December 28, 2024 by virsto
Forgot vers. of Designer

[Hangman]

@virsto and welcome to the forums,

A destructive approach could be the knife tool, i.e., the text will no longer be editable...

A non-destructive approach could be the Contrast Negate Blend Mode...

[Old Bruce]

3 hours ago, virsto said:

For the left half of the acronym SOS (leading S and left half of O in black) with a white background.  For the right half (right half of O and trailing S in white) with a black backgound. I am rather new to affinity designer 2 and thought this should be a rather easy task; but that has not been the case. I am using Designer 2.57

I would duplicate the SOS and use a clipping mask. Here I used Green and Red for the two text layers.

[G13RL]

@virsto, You can create the rectangle and apply a black and white gradient to it. Type the black text above the rectangle and set the blend to ‘Contrast Negat’.

[lepr]

A method using a Compound, and which can be exported as vectors: sos.afdesign

[GarryP]

Another possibility, which I wouldn’t recommend using for real but might be interesting to experiment with, would be to give the text a White Background Colour and then add a Black-White Gradient Overlay Effect – with ‘concurrent’ stops in the centre of the gradient, see “*” in image – with a Negation Blend Mode. (The angle of the effect can be changed easily to give some different results.)

See attached image and document (I had to ZIP the document to get the forum to accept it).

Because an Effect has been used the result will be rasterised upon export but that might not be a problem.

half-black-half-white-text.zip

Edited December 29, 2024 by GarryP
Added document.