mandoman4 Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 My logo (or rather the way I do my name) is in the attached image. Does anyone know how to accomplish this look in Designer? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Is this a font or a design you have created? 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...
gdenby Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Hi, mandoman4 "Studios" I would suppose might require a font. The rest can be fairly easily made from simple geometric shapes. Rectangles, the Affinity "donut" ellipse, specifically. There's too much anti-aliasing in the image for me to tell, but it appears some of the stroke widths might be thicker than others. Assuming you know the stroke proportions, it would be pretty simple to get what you want by using the above shapes, and boolean operations like add, subtract and divide. You might need to tweak a few nodes to make the swells of the C, B, & Rs. I did an approximation of the first 5 letters in about 5 minutes. If you have a font to start with, convert the font to curves, and then start cutting away by making appropriate shapes to subtract from the geometricized font. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandoman4 Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 The font is Skia. I just used the marquee tool in Illustrator to subtract the areas that I wanted to get rid of. My question is if I can do the same thing in Affinity and how it is done. Thanks for your responses! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 What I did in this example was to place some rectangles and then placed them inside the text. Also, I changed the blendo mode to "Erase": Best regards! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Create a black square Select the font for your name Type "Eric Weber" Select font for Studio Type "Studio" 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...
gdenby Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Ah, an Apple system font. Easy-peasey Artistic text tool. Set all caps, type. Convert to curves. Draw rectangles or polygon curves over letter shapes. Make sure the rectangles, etc are above the letters in the layer hierarchy. Select rectangle(s), select letter, boolean subtract. 4 letters shown below. A bit better, draw all subtract shapes, and add together. Select all letter forms, and add. Again, make sure the subtract objects are above. Cut all out at once. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 30 minutes ago, gdenby said: A bit better, draw all subtract shapes, and add together. Select all letter forms, and add. Again, make sure the subtract objects are above. Cut all out at once. Strictly speaking, there’s no need to add together the ‘subtract’ shapes. However, there’s no harm in doing so. The advantage of @Mithferion’s method is that it’s non-destructive, so you can easily edit the text later on, but that obviously doesn’t matter in this particular case. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 9 minutes ago, Alfred said: The advantage of @Mithferion’s method is that it’s non-destructive, so you can easily edit the text later on, but that obviously doesn’t matter in this particular case. Alfred, Doesn't using any of the Blend modes make it become a raster on export? I'm just curious, I would love to be able to use the Blends and then export them as a PDF maintaining the vectors but I haven't been able to. Maybe I'm missing something? Hokusai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 8 minutes ago, Hokusai said: Alfred, Doesn't using any of the Blend modes make it become a raster on export? I'm just curious, I would love to be able to use the Blends and then export them as a PDF maintaining the vectors but I haven't been able to. Maybe I'm missing something? Hokusai In that case, the way to go is using Compounds. Best regards! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 27 minutes ago, Alfred said: The advantage of @Mithferion’s method is that it’s non-destructive, so you can easily edit the text later on, but that obviously doesn’t matter in this particular case. The problem is that Erase mode does not work if you export to SVG eg. Erase used to "erase" the vertical bar of the E when exported as SVG and imported Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 This way, when exporting to PDF, you will have a Curve generated, but in the AFDESIGN file you will keep the text as editable. Best regards! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 2 minutes ago, toltec said: The problem is that Erase mode does not work if you export to SVG Yup, I noticed that, but when you use Compunds, the moment you export you will get the same result as Curves. Best regards! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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