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Best way to layer text

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Feb 15, 2019 Feb 15, 2019

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I'm trying to reproduce the Pittsburgh Steelers text logo as follows.

Steelers.PNG

I found the font and I'm having a hard time creating the yellow background for the text and then the black outline of the yellow background. I've tried to do this via blend mode, but the breaks in the text don't allow for a solid blended shape.

Then I tried to do this via offset path, but I'm not getting the smoothness around the letters - I set the cap and corner to round, but still a little rough.

offset path.PNG

Any help would be appreciated

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LEGEND , Feb 15, 2019 Feb 15, 2019
  1. Use the "Appearance" Panel and add two additional "Stroke" attributes.
  2. Set One to Yellow and one to Black.
  3. Drag them BELOW the "Characters" in the Appearance panel.
  4. Set the stroke of the Yellow to something that looks right.
  5. Do the same for the bottom Black stroke.

FYI… if the font is not built well you may find things do not line up as expected, but these steps should work for you.

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LEGEND ,
Feb 15, 2019 Feb 15, 2019

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  1. Use the "Appearance" Panel and add two additional "Stroke" attributes.
  2. Set One to Yellow and one to Black.
  3. Drag them BELOW the "Characters" in the Appearance panel.
  4. Set the stroke of the Yellow to something that looks right.
  5. Do the same for the bottom Black stroke.

FYI… if the font is not built well you may find things do not line up as expected, but these steps should work for you.

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Feb 16, 2019 Feb 16, 2019

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Thx for pointing out that the font might not be built well as I ended up coping the black text and giving that a yellow stroke while adding some small shapes via the pen tool to close some gaps and then copying the black text again and then giving that a black stroke, while rounding the cap and corners and got something decent

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