Texturing my Grafitti font in fontlab 8

Lorenzo Martinez
Lorenzo Martinez Posts: 12
in Type Design Technique & Theory

hi!

Does anyone here can help/ teach me how to add texture on my font? The texture is an svg file that I traced on illustrator.

when I try to paste it on fontlab 8, the texture just become a glpyh and not a texture on the glyph.

If it helps, these are additional context.
- my font file (.vfc) has glyphs that are not flattened for easier editing

- the picture texture is a combination of white to black, its a painting texture.

- the texture im trying to add is a picture I traced on illustrator. It's already vectored and saved it as SVG

- im on fontlab 8.4.2 (if it helps)

hoping someone can guide me. thanks!


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  • Igor Freiberger
    Igor Freiberger Posts: 298
    Select the glyphs in Font Window and then go to Tools > Actions > Effects.
    Engrave is probably the effect you want once you already have a texture.
    But there are several interesting effects to experiment.


  • Lorenzo Martinez
    Lorenzo Martinez Posts: 12
    Igor Freiberger said:
    Select the glyphs in Font Window and then go to Tools > Actions > Effects.
    Engrave is probably the effect you want once you already have a texture.
    But there are several interesting effects to experiment.



    heyyy thank you so much! This is the option that I cant see to find haha.

    so yeah here's my screenshot

    asd

    My aim for this font is too look like the brush would become a "brush stroke" effect on my font. (Its a grafitti font that I'm making). Would that be possible with my font?

    When I try to impose the texture it's just appearing like a black spot on the glyph.
    Any guide on these settings? 

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