Text Fonts - Outlined but not filled in

[Anonymous]

We encountered instances when we needed to detail wall elevations where we have specified a particular font style for big labels to be on the wall panels.

For example, we selected ARIAL ROUNDED BOLD as the font, and typed out the letter(s) to be of a different color on the panel. As a result, the letter turned out with a black fill, which looks awful on the drawing.

In the end, we had to trace out the letter(s) with the Fill tool using a 25% fill. It was terrible.

If it were possible to apply the 25/50/75% fill to all fonts, that would be really cool. We would be able to vary the intensity of fonts appearance. Better still if a 0% fill would be made available, so ONLY an outline of the font is shown.

[Barry Kelly]

Have you tried using the "3D text" object?
You can attach any material with whatever associated fill pattern you want.

Barry.

PS you already have a 0% fill available as the "Empty Fill" - but of course this can't be applied to 2D text.