Colour Halftone

[BenSCR]

How can I create a 'Colour Halftone' like this, and mask it inside an object.

Colour Halftone

[Monika Gause]

You want this in pure vector paths?

Or would a raster based effect be sufficient?

[BenSCR]

I'm not 100% sure which one, but I think a raster is what I would want, as I want to know how to mask colour halftones in to square and circle shapes etc.

[Monika Gause]

Then you can experiment with the halftone raster effect in Illustrator. Apply it to a greyscale gradient.

They result will be a black halftone raster.

The result can be applied to a violet shape as an opacity mask.

Then you can put that into a clipping mask to get the text style.