Creating a transparent shape like the Mohawk logo

[jillo10791090]

Does anyone know how to create this Mohawk logo effect?  I'm an Illustrator newbie and I thought it looked pretty straightforward but not so much. I can't seem to figure out how they got the cone shapes under or on top of the circles (orange, blue and purple) to stay less transparent.  Love to learn,

[Monika Gause]

Most probably all of those shapes are not transparent at all, but filled with colors to mimick transparency.

[jillo10791090]

That's what I was wondering, Monika! The closest I came to recreating it was when I created the 'cone' shapes separately with 100% opacity and layered them over the transparent parts.

[Doug A Roberts]

applying Multiply gives broadly similar results, but i think what i would do personally is create them all as separate shapes, including the overlaps, (either using shape builder or live paint or pathfinder to help out) and then colour each segment individually to your liking.

[jillo10791090]

Thanks, Doug.  Can you explain what you mean by applying Multiply?

[Monika Gause]

You might want to read the documentation

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/transparency-blending-modes.html

[Doug A Roberts · Accepted solution]

multiply is one of the transparency blending modes:

but really you want to be building separate shapes, or otherwise colour these areas individually, for a logo. it's the most foolproof way: