Hobeaux Rococeaux from Oh no Type

[iamtheblues]

Here's an unusual one. Most of you probably have a Hobo font on a hard drive, but Hobeaux Rococeaux is a horse of a different colour.
Lovingly made, it's a nice font for display purposes. Have a read of The Process of Hobeaux, it's an entertaining article and there are a couple of others on
the same page featuring other Oh no fonts that may pique your interest.

I was disappointed to discover that there is no fill to the font, only outlines, so you can't just type away using the colour of your choice for the outlines and
another colour for the fill. I had to draw around the shapes individually for each character and recolour the resulting shapes. So basically I ended up with two
sets of vector characters one outline and one fill. So it's fiddly to say the least of you want more than just a one colour outline as shown in the top of the
three examples in my attachment. But if you do make the effort the end result is very pleasing.
Bob.

[handrawn]

I don't claim to be an expert on fonts bob - but if you have outlines can you not clone, convert to editable shape, then break shape [doing all of them at once and might be an ungroup or two in the mix]

nice work

[iamtheblues]

Thanks, Steve.
After the convert & break shapes operation, only the join and add shapes options are available, the rest are greyed out.
Ungrouping helps, but the results are mixed, but in any case all can be used but the O and the B need a bit of slicing to remove unwanted parts.
Still, it's much quicker than my original method ~ a life saver! Thanks, mate.

[handrawn]

glad it was useful bob

I admire your patience; me, I just don't have it...
break shapes sold xara to me 13 years ago, that and freehand stroke shapes; and they still are the features I use most for cartooning with a wacom, very quick when you get the hang of it

[iamtheblues]

I knew of the break shapes option, but never got around to seeing what the capabilities were. Probably not being aware of the ungrouping step is the reason.
Still, it's certainly sped up my workflow using this font.
Bob.

[handrawn]

always something to investigate/learn...

now if someone could only tell me how to fix, as in commit, the art brush rendering, other than by grouping, I would be happier to use them more often; grouping slows the workflow down - I'm tweaking the hardware, but I have a feeling some lag may always be there during zoom....

I'm all for fast workflow...