How to change the text color and keep shaded part of WTR Gothic Open Shaded font in Illustrator?

[Patbutcherearrings]

Hi, I want to change the fill colour on this font and keep the shaded part black. I can only see how to change the colour of the font, which changes the shadow part and not the inside of the letter. Any ideas? Or is there a way of separating the internal letter shape from the external shaded part. I tried outlining, but can't seem to separate the 2 parts of the letter.

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[pixxxelschubser]

What font?
Can you show something?

[Patbutcherearrings]

WTR Gothic shaded; it looks like this and I want to know the best way of filling each letter with a different colour whilst retaining the black shading. 

[Anshul_Saini]

Hi there,

Thank you for reaching out and answering the questions asked by @Patbutcherearrings.

You should be able to do this by following these steps:

• Select text > Type > Create outlines
• Then select all the letters and right-click > Release Compound path
• Select the main letters and apply the color of your liking to them.
• (Optional) You can also scale the colored letters and get rid of the black stroke/ outline around them by perfectly aligning with the background shadow.
  

Let us know if you need any further assistance. We'd be happy to help.

Thanks & Regards,

Anshul Saini

[Patbutcherearrings]

Thanks so much for this, how can I do this on the iPad app? 

[Monika Gause]

In the iPad app you outline the font.

Then you ungroup and release the compound path.

Then you can recolor the counters of the letters.

[Patbutcherearrings]

Thanks so much

[Anteysa5CA0]

How do you do it in Premiere Pro? 

[Annemarie269689095kxv]

This worked like a charm. However, when I print the PDF most of the colored parts do not print. Only one of the colors used does. How can I make sure they all print?

[Monika Gause]

So what did you do? Outline the font and then fill it with color?

Does it look OK, when you open the PDF with Acrobat? If that is the case, then you will have to search for the issue in your printer or printer driver.

[pixxxelschubser]

@Patbutcherearrings 

do you need a fully editable live text?

One limit --> one color per textframe

 

 

How to do it on the iPad? No idea, I only use Illustrator on the computer.

 

[Heidi_Ryan]

Does anybody have directions in English? Trying to do it through German but I'm getting lost. 

[Ton Frederiks]

Group the textbox.

In the Appearance panel add a new Fill below the Group Contents.

Use Effects > Pathfinder > Trim on the Fill.