How would you select part of a letter/font and change the colour of it ??

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December 31, 2013
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for example i want to selct the the letter 'b' and just want to change the colour of the ascender' ( the top half of the b) how could i do this on INDESIGN

like this

Steve Werner

Community Expert

Type > Create Outlines. Then use the Direct Selection tool, Pen tool, etc. to modify the paths so they can be colored.

Illustrator is better suited to this kind of task because it has more tools and commands to work with paths.

J

Josh-ZossAuthor

Participant

Yeah i know - But i can only use indesign for this project is there a way i can replicate the job on top ^^^^^ but only using indesgn.

I dont have illustrator yet.

Steve Werner

Community Expert

shoo: there is a much easier way...

1. leave the text dont convert.

2. Copy the text frame

3. use the pen tool and draw a closed path where you want the "cut" or diferent colour to show

4. Right click *on the selected path u just drew and paste into.

5. then change the colour of the text

and to show the boxes

/G

@Grant,

That works for that simple case, but it wouldn't work in the example the poster displayed. Different parts of the letterforms are being colored, each letter is done differently. That requires a more complex approach.

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