The 3D extrude option in Adobe Illustrator wasn't able to do a spectacular job for a client who wanted to color each face of the letter in different ways for Figma purposes. So I had to spend some time separating the outlines artistically. I wonder if there is a way to do this automatically, because I will most probably have to repeat this for the whole font. I had a hard time figuring out where the middle part of ovals in letters like B must be, I know there will still be some work on my part to get the faces right, but I hope to be able to automate the more boring parts.
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I designed a font (Via Appia, available on daFont). In the spirit of what you're searching.
I never found an automation for this project.
I worked in FL7 using the Outline action (with negative values), the Create Parallel Contour and a lot of Copy/Paste and adjustments to obtain the desired result.
I think there should be, at least, a tool to create a curve or line in the middle of the stem. This would certainly help.
So, there is no automated way to get around the hard work, especially in glyphs like @ and &.
So it is possible, it's just very complicated.
You're quite right! It escaped my attention in the uppercase A!
Should have called it "Via Escher".
I corrected this.
Many thanks, Jasper !
This is how it looks shaded by hand by the client.
During the design, it crossed my mind. And then I forgot. I'll give it a try.
Thank you James!
automated way for it. In the picture below, as an example, my glyph "B"