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Multipart/layered fonts

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Multipart/layered fonts

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- [Tony] I am welcome to "Design Tools Weekly" with me, Tony Harmer. This week we're going to take a look at multi-part or layered fonts. Now, if you've never come across them before they are collections of fonts, either inside of a whole family or separate fonts that you can combine into an effect such as the word vintage here. You'll see this is built layer on layer using different fonts. Now, just in case you can't visualize that from what you're seeing right now, let's pop across into another document here where I have the word explore. And this is set in one of my favorite fonts from Adobe fonts, Acier BAT. Now, if I go up to the font menu, just here, I'm going to click just after BAT and hit the space bar. It will show me all of the members of the family. And you can see that I've got texts gris at the top there, text noir, text outline, text solid, as it's set in already, and text strokes. So what I'm going to…

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