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Nathan29772043348p
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May 7, 2023
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Changing colours on Trajan Color Font to Black and White

  • May 7, 2023
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Hi guys, 

 

As the title suggests, I am currently trying to change the colour on the Trajan Color font. I am doing this, as I see it as a shortcut to create the depth to the text. 

 

I have been watching a guide on youtube, which shows how to add colour to SVG text, which has worked up to the stage where I am trying to create a white and black balance on the colour balance window.

 

What combination on the red, green, and blue mixer should I use to get me what I want? 

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

 

Cheers,

NB

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    Bobby HendersonCommunity Expert
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    May 8, 2023

    The Trajan Color SVG Concept typeface has 20 pre-defined color styles built-in. Usually I open the Glyphs palette, scoll to Trajan Color and then select the color style I want. I'll type a dummy character with that style out on the artboard and then use the eyedropper tool to copy that style onto other text objects. Or I just start typing out a new point text object based on that selected style. I haven't found a more simple way to do that in the Character palette or the font menu. All I see is "concept" from the drop down menus. The Glyphs palette shows all the style sets.

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    Nathan29772043348pAuthor
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    May 8, 2023

    is that the standed Trajan Color on Illustrator? or is this a seperate one I need to download?

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    Bobby HendersonCommunity Expert
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    May 8, 2023

    The Trajan Color typeface included in Illustrator has all the features I described. You have to open the Glyphs palette in order to access the 20 different color styles. Trajan Color is also available to sync via the Adobe Fonts service; that can make the typeface available to other non-Adobe applications that support SVG Color Fonts.
    https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/trajan-color

      pixxxelschubser
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      pixxxelschubserCommunity Expert
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      May 7, 2023

      Short answer - even if it is unsatisfactory:
      The Trajan colour font was not designed with the possibility of colour matching.

      Sorry about that.

       

      The only thing you can do is to use a blend mode to achieve a grey tone, or a combination of a new fill colour in the Appearance panel and a blend mode. But even with this you cannot achieve the desired result.

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      Nathan29772043348pAuthor
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      May 8, 2023

      What would you then suggest? Maybe using a different font and using the gradient tool to create what I want? I also have Photoshop not sure if thats any better at creating text intended for logos? 

       

      What I ideally want is just create an NB text logo for a company

      Ton Frederiks
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      Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
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      May 8, 2023

      If you want to make a logo, it is probably useful to create outlines from the font. After that you can use Edit Colors to convert to greyscale.

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