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Spiro splines in illustrator?

Jun 6, 2012 11:29 PM

Any idea how this can be done in illustrator? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OaLZuFZxdk

That is some sweet way to make a type. I dont know if any font editors can do this already.

 

Can illustrator CS6 do something like this?

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  • Mathias17
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    1. Mathias17,
    Jun 7, 2012 1:32 AM   in reply to gradientmush
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    Illy doesn't have intelligent pathing functions like that. A crying shame, too.

     

    If you want anything close to that, check out the VectorScribe plugin.

     
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    Jun 7, 2012 5:30 AM   in reply to Mathias17
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    That is indeed a shame. That is so nifty. Vector scribe sounds interesting, never had that one. Don't any font editors have that feature?

     
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    Jun 7, 2012 6:10 AM   in reply to gradientmush
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    That I do not know.

     
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    Jun 7, 2012 6:15 AM   in reply to Mathias17
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    when will illustrator have spiro splines? any idea? One would think by CS6 atleast such a feature would be covered. Real shame it isn't. I used to use inkscape a lot and then switched to AI for the fact AI was more feature rich, now this one  feature  in inkscape - the spiro spline makes it slightly  stronger than AI.

     
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    Jun 7, 2012 6:25 AM   in reply to gradientmush
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    Inkscape has them (but they deform the path too much imo). You can have a library for FontForge http://libspiro.sourceforge.net/

     

    Spiro curves were also built into the Font Editor Ikarus (don't know if it still exists)

     

    If you want to know more about it you should also search the terms clothoid and cornu spiral

     

    and you could take a look at this: http://issuu.com/fontfont/docs/ff_din_round

     
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  • Mathias17
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    Jun 7, 2012 6:30 AM   in reply to gradientmush
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    How the Illy dev team decides to apportion their focus each cycle is beyond me.

     

    IMO, pretty much all of VectorScribe's tools ought to be native to Illustrator by now.

     
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    Jun 7, 2012 6:33 AM   in reply to Monika Gause
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    i already did research about clothoid, etc. Yeah using it inside fontforge is the only way to go and then export it to Illy. But this tool if it existed in Illy could do a lot more than just editing fonts.

     
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    Jun 7, 2012 6:34 AM   in reply to Mathias17
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    Yeah vectorscribe is a decent plugin that should be native to Illy.

     
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