Tuesday, August 13, 2019

path - No fill where text overlaps in Adobe Illustrator


I have a word where one object (letter) meets with another. You can see some white part at the junction of the letters "L" and "A". It is transparent just like it has been cut but every single letter should be filled.


How can totally fill the word with one color?


Here is an example.



Answer




This can be caused by incorrect path directions (either in live type* or a compound path).


You can change the direction of a path through the Attributes panel. Select the problem path, set it to use a "Non-Zero Winding Fill Rule" (the left of the far right icons) and use the two middle icons to reverse the path direction. If there are counters (i.e. the hole in the "O" in the following example), you will need to reverse the direction of that path too...


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* If this is live type then it is a sure sign of a badly created font. You should probably use a more reliable font if you're using it for any length of text (or if you're only using few enough characters to manually fix then convert the type to outlines).


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