You can use some of the Live Effects in Xara to pull an emboss out of text, and I think you discovered that because Cooper is such a bold font, you can emboss it AND use a texture.

The only real difference between your font play and mine, is that everyone knows cats could care less about a fancy rug you buy them. They lay on anything they like.

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