Textured Lines

[pascalbinckenstein]

Hi there, 

 

just a quick question. How can i create textured lines? One of my customers wants me to create a triangle which looks like the papyrus font - Can I do it somehow? 

[toltec]

Draw a triangle, select a textured brush and

 

drag the width slider

 

 

I am not sure if there is a perfect brush though. You will have to try them.

 

It looks a bit "grungy" so you might have to add a mask to it.

 

[pascalbinckenstein]

Hi, thanks for your answer. That's may a dumb question, but where can I find the textured brushes?  

[toltec]

37 minutes ago, pascalbinckenstein said:

Hi, thanks for your answer. That's may a dumb question, but where can I find the textured brushes?  

 

It's in the picture I posted, In the Brushes panel (Studio on the right) from the drop down menu, select Textured 

[carl123]

You could just add a gold coloured noise image, mask the triangle to the image then adjust the Blend Ranges of the image to make it partially transparent in places.

 

[StuartRc]

Hi,

There are several methods you could use to re-create distressed looks on lines

 

1. As Toltec has suggested simply replace the lines with a textured brush from the brush library panel

 

2, Manual: Create a distressed object line with expand stroke and manually edit vector with pen+node tools 

3. Mask to below: Overlay a shape with texture pattern (vector or raster). Make sure layers are 'stacked' [pattern on top] and use a Layer Mask. Activate mask to below in layers panel [right-click on selected layer] and 'knock-out' parts of the image [Adjust for effect]

3. Layer Erase: Overlay texture pattern (vector group) and set layer containing required pattern to 'erase' [layer erase]

4. Mask: Add layer mask to vector object and paint mask with textured raster brush

 

5. Nested layers with pattern object inside line [Thick lines or shapes] 

[pascalbinckenstein]

36 minutes ago, carl123 said:

You could just add a gold coloured noise image, mask the triangle to the image then adjust the Blend Ranges of the image to make it partially transparent in places.

 

 

 

I am pretty new to Affinity Designer - Would you mind to send me the file via email? 

[carl123]

I have attached the file here

 

nefertem2.afdesign

[firstdefence]

Why not just make a brush that emulates the font Like this one Papyrus Brush.afbrushes   made the wrong brush on the first one I uploaded, this one will change colour when choosing the stroke colour.

 

[Guest]

Good evening,

I join @firstdefence, I also created a brush.

[JimmyJack]

If you want an EXACT match, why not use the font itself on a text curve (I used the dash....play with spacing and baseline shift).

Or, at the very least.... (and especially if you eventually need to do something with curves)

Make a brush from the font itself (2nd pic). I used a couple different straight sections end to end to create a little more variety (of course you can also play with pressure too).