Kiarian Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 I'm trying to figure out the best way to recreate this 70's font. The blocking out of the main white shapes is easy enough, but I'm struggling to find a way to accurate recreate the thinner black lines of this font. When I draw it free hand, it just looks off, as human error creeps in and the bezier curves just don't look right. I've tried expanding stroke, then adjusting the stroke on the expanded stroke layer, but it's still not right. Any advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 I would take some appropriate font (maybe Avenir Next which is available in many styles), then type in sized fitting variants of the 7 and 0, convert them to curves for possible node adjustments, lay them over the other and combine them (add, substract etc.) into the wished result form. Somehow like this ... ... where you finally would have to fit then the 7 and 0 closer together and combine them. Here nothing is hand drawn so far. Kiarian 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiarian Posted January 6, 2018 Author Share Posted January 6, 2018 That's probably the best/least hassle way of doing it. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 You can try with different combined styles (ultralight, normal, medium, halfbold, bold ... etc.) of the numbers of a font and see which of those then do fit best together, with just having to make minimal adjustments when converted to nodes and combined together. - I've used ultralight, medium and halfbold for the 70. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Aren't these called Neon or disco fonts? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiarian Posted January 6, 2018 Author Share Posted January 6, 2018 Prism looks like an ideal font for this. Didn't even know I had it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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