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How to make that effect on font (tooled?)

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
July 1, 2024
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Hi

I have LTC Goudy Oldstyle Pro font from Adobe fonts

and want to have effect like this?

Is it possible to do this in "easy" way?

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barbara_a7746676

Community Expert

I don't know if you'll consider this 'easy', but this is one way you could do it in Illustrator.

Type your text and fill it with black (or whichever fill color you want).

Select the text with the Selection tool.

In the Appearance panel, choose the same fill color you chose before.

In the Appearance panel flyout menu, choose Add New Stroke. Choose a stroke color and weight.

In the Appearance panel, click to highlight the stroke.

Click the 'fx' button at the bottom of the panel and choose Distort & Transform > Transform.

In the Transform dialog box, drag the Horizontal Move slider to offset the stroke.

To avoid having to repeat these steps, select the text with the Selection tool, and drag it into the Graphic Styles panel to create a new graphic style.

Whenever you want to repeat the style, simply select the text you want to apply the style to with the Selection tool and click on the style in the Graphic Styles panel.

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Michal BaranAuthor

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Thank you, that answers help me a lot 🙂

And I found a way to make it even better

pixxxelschubser

Community Expert

@Michal Baran

For future questions on the same topic: And how does the process you discovered work?

Monika Gause

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I think you can save yourself some headaches and a lot of work if you just license this: https://www.myfonts.com/de/products/goudy-handtooled-goudy-handtooled-434320

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Bobby Henderson

Community Expert

Goudy Handtooled has been included in the fonts bundle of some rival graphics applications (Macromedia Freehand, Deneba Canvas and CorelDRAW to name a few). Those "cuts" were made by either URW or Bitstream. Both of those companies were absorbed by Monotype over the years.

I thought Goudy Handtooled was also included in MS Office, but that's wrong. Office just has a couple or so weights of Goudy Old Style.

If time is worth money, it's certainly going to be easier (and more accurate) to just blow the $30 on Bitstream's "Std" version of Goudy Old Style.

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