How to make objects from inside of font?

Hi,

I got some work from a new client and for the moment it mostly means updating his current stuff.

He is using this font "Comica BD".
I need to write a couple of headlines, where this font is in two colors. First the character itself, second color for the filling, which is now hollow.

For the first sentence, I just painted over each character and put the shape to the back.
Now I have to do a couple more headlines, but it gets very tedious to do every single character.

I tried intersecting, slicing etc. with other objects to get only the "inner part" of each character.
It did not really work well though.

Does somebody have an idea or a workaround to make this task easier?
Is there any way to get "only the insides", without having to paint each one individually?

Thanks!
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What about using Comica BD Bold: https://www.dafont.com/comica-bd.font.

Hi Wolfgang,
I'd second Boy's suggestion.

1. Write out your new text in Comica bold.

2. Choose text. Change fill to colour you want.

3. Change line to transparent.

This does not work with Comica itself.
cheers, Erik

Try this Wolfgang. Can't say it will work on your font but it should.

Put a rectangle behind the text.
Select rectangle & text.
Arrange / Combine Shapes / Slice (Ctrl+4)
This gives you 1 shape.
Arrange / Break Shapes
Esc
Now delete the shapes you don't require. (Wire frame view helps here)
Select the remaining shapes that you require.
Arrange / Combine Shapes / Add (Ctrl+1)

Thinks for that Egg, I have learned more from you than you will ever know.

Thanks Larry :D

Hey, thanks to all of you!

In this very case, Boy's solution works well for me. I had only gotten the "hollow" Comica font from the client with no idea where he got it from. Comica bold is just what I need to make it work easy. Big thanks!

Other than that, I still was interested if it could be done another way. That's where Egg came to the rescue ;-)
I had already tried slicing, intersecting etc. with another shape, but it never really worked.
"Break shapes" was the ingredient that I was missing. Thanks for that!

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Originally Posted by Wolfgang

That's where Egg came to the rescue ;-)
I had already tried slicing, intersecting etc. with another shape, but it never really worked.
"Break shapes" was the ingredient that I was missing.

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I still get confused by this routine as well. :confused: