Fill in gaps in a hollow text font

Question

Hi all !

I'm using DS Cathedral font and I'd like to be able to use a stroke so the inner font is brown and the outer is yellow.

I thought I could do this naturally but when I add stroke, it doesn't fill all the gaps in the background and adding more stroke just got over the orignal text. If you see what i mean in the attachement.

I have tried a clipping mask but evezrything got yellow then.

Possible to do it easily

Thank you

Ton Frederiks · Accepted Answer

Similar to Monika's solution but with Pathfinder Merge.Object > Expand Appearance will create outlines and the Shape Builder tool (Shift M) will remove the fill in the e when clicked with the Alt key.

Monika Gause · Answer

In the Appearance panel add a new fill and move it below the characters.

Then apply Effect > Pathfinder > Trim and after that Effect > Pathfinder > Add to that fill (only to that fill). Disregard the warnings. Unfortunately this will also fill the punches.

Maybe you could also add a new stroke in the Appearance panel, move it below the Characters and then just apply a very thick stroke so that the gaps are filled.

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