what am I missing here?

[andreaf23600721]

hello community I am having difficulty with my project. I wanted to put all the circles in the back and have the name in front in white, but as you can see some of the circle is showing through the letters. Can anyone lend a hand??

[happie_97]

Could you expand the clip group layer? At first glance, it looks like some of the letters have the colors clipped into. 

You also could have open paths interacting with the other colors below it.

[pixxxelschubser]

It's a pity that we don't see the layer view unfolded.

There are two possibilities (as minimum) what happened.

first: what @happie_97 said

second: maybe [Strg]+[E] (toggle Preview on CPU/CPU) could help

third: …

[Jacob Bugge]

Andrea,

I definitely also see it as the open paths observation that happie made.

Whever you have a straight strokeless border, you have an open end Anchor Point at either end, belonging to the same path.; the border literally points to them. So I believe wou will wish to complete the paths.

Concerning the circles in the back you could also consider a change of (the appearance of) the circles from a back to front stacking order to be like a chain where each of them is above one and below one of its neighbours.

[Randy Hagan]

Like the others here, I believe your problems stem from not creating complete, closed paths for your letters.

That's why the "covered" part of your "E" is putting a diagonal green stripe through your letter. Closing that that space under the "R/I" figure will eliminate the bleed-through of the underlying circle. Similarly, closing up the open paths along the "R/I" figure will get rid of your green bumps along that figure. You'll want to close the "I" part to the poing where it stacks under the back-serif of the "E" and connect the bottom of the "R" to the bottom edge of the stroke for your "D" character.

I see what you're going for, but as a general rule it's better to create complete, closed letterforms for your signature, then create "opaquing" fill elements over the top than it is to work with open, overlapping forms. Use your stacking order — and your opaquing forms — to create your breaks.

Rad sig, by the way. Like the work.

Randy

[BoBBYSchiek211]

Id recommend layering the circles then grouping them. That way all of the circles are a separate bit from the type.