
What you end up with of course is the equivalent of a 1.5% thickness in this example, so consider that when you're adjusting the setting. Now all you can see is the part of the outline outside the glyph margins. With your copy superimposed on the original, turn off outlining in the copy and make its background None if necessary. Hint: an easy way to do this is to use Multiple Duplicate, making only one copy, and specifying no X,Y shift. The workaround for this issue comes from making a copy of the original text frame with the same XPos, YPos coordinates. Notice that half the thickness of the outline is outside the original glyph margins, and half is inside.

If you click-hold the button, a dropdown spinbox pops up to change the thickness of the outline, shown in percentage.Īfter selecting a color and setting the value to 3.00%, I get this: You can then select a color for the outline.

The third button from the right turns outlining on and off. Enjoy quick browsing, easy use in desktop applications or on the web, and endless typographic inspiration. Looking for the perfect font With 40,490 fonts from sans-serif to handwritten, we guarantee you’ll find the perfect match for your projects. An outline font is scalable because, given a geometrical description of a typeface, a printer or other display device can generate the characters at any size ( scale ). They are often used for display purposes.

The most popular languages for defining outline fonts are PostScript and TrueType. Outline fonts are fonts that consist of only the outlines of each character, without any fill or shading inside. By selecting a text frame or some text inside that frame, you go to the Color & Effects subtab of the Text tab of Properties. A scalable font in which the outlines of each character are geometrically defined. Outlining fonts is relatively simple in Scribus.
