Is there an easy-ish way to add various textures to a master font? I’m going for three styles similar to the ones here:
https://creativemarket.com/Bowery/625332-Saser-script/screenshots/#screenshot3
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Like the rough style in the sample? I am working on something similar but it won’t be out for a while.
Yes. The rough script style. Just wondering if there is a way to make a second, more destroyed font version via a background layer, filter, etc. without copying / pasting glyphs one by one. I’d prefer to just somehow make the textured font from the smooth font version.
Dump the entire font, minus accented letters, to an Indesign file at 120pt or larger. Export that to 300 DPI raster images. Use Photoshop filters (Machine Wash from Mr. Retro works well) inside of an action to distress all of the images in a batch job. Autotrace each distressed image with Illustrator, then copy/paste the glyphs back into Glyphs. Now you get to the horrible part—cleaning up the bad paths and reducing node counts. You might want to use a different technique to distress the outline of the letterforms, talk to calligraphers and lettering artists about those.
Thank you for the tips. I’ll look into that! I was curious about this though… it seems like there is a way to add a texture simply in glyphs? Adding a texture layer
Result may not be as good as doing it via actions the way you suggest though…
Angie,
In the example Ian posted http://d.pr/i/1dWA9, it seems that he is using Illustrator to add the texture and then he copy/paste into Glyphs. I guess it is the easiest and the most “realistic” way for now. If you start playing with texture in Glyphs, there won’t be a way to randomize it or you’ll have to create a different texture for every single glyph.
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Hey Rainer, did you get a chance to work more on this?
No, sorry. It still is on my list.
Sorry to revive this, did it eventuate?
It eventually became the Risorizer plugin. The NaN scripts had effects that were closer. But they were never ported to G3.
Then there is nothing close to this in v3? Is there any other software that can do this (perhaps to then import in to Glyphs?)
And there is no equivalent to “paste inside” right?
Did you check out the Risorizer plugin, available from the Plugin Manager?
What do you mean by that?
In Illustrator/Affinity designer you can select something (bigger than the object you want to paste it into), cut, and paste it inside the smaller object, the smaller object’s path preventing seeing the total size of the bigger object outside it’s perimeter.
I was thinking to make a texture for a glyph, where it looks like it has a brush effect, I could create some small paths in random brush strokes, looking like a brush texture, copy, then paste into a closed path (either in Glyphs or for importing into). This texture then would only be seen inside the glyph boundary, not outside it so the shape is retained.
Do you simply mean a clipping mask? Can you show what you want to do?
Oh, @SCarewe I thought it read as it was not ported to G3 either. Will check it out. Thanks 
Must have inadvertently added another digit to t pond of the settings, so it just spun a circle for a long while, eventually I force quit. Opened Glyphs again, removed the Risorizer plugin, quit. Glyphs works normally until I redownload and open Risorizer. Even after removing it and a reboot of my Mac. Must be a process that has left behind a partial processing file ? as every time I install it and select it to use, the app just spins.
If anyone has a fix so I can open and test it again, let me know, although from what I saw originally before it started the freezing, it was not the effect texture I wanted unfortunately.
These are brush strokes. If you want realistic ones, best option is to draw them with a brush and scan them.
Confused. What does pasting inside have to do with texture?
This could be made in illustrator. With some specific brushes, and you can always turn the thing you drew to outline then import them into glyphs app. One of the famous plugin in illustrator is : Astute Graphics. You can have a look!
Or you can draw them in real life then scan and vectorize them.