Assign each half of a glyph (ASCII character) with a different color?

Cn you show us a sample glyph, just so we can visualize what it looks like, and maybe put some callouts on it too describe what you want colored?

This is live text, gradient-filled and using a white outline. Is this what you need to do?

Illustrator and InDesign both have a pathfinder, but Illustrator has a Divide button that makes this possible in a few steps:

1. Make a circle (no stroke)
2. Make a straight line (no stroke or fill)
3. Align the circle with the line horizontal and vertical
4. Select the line and circle
5. Click the Divide button in the pathfinder
6. Ungroup

In InDesign, you don't have the Divide button, so it's a few more steps:

1. Make a circle (no stroke)
2. Snap a guide to the center (if View>Grids & Guides>Snap to Guides is checked)
3. Make a rectangle (no stroke)
4. Snap the left side of the rectangle to the guide at center of the circle
5. Select both and copy
6. Object>Pathfinder>Subtract (you will have the left side of the circle)
7. Select the half circle and go to Object>Hide (or Command 3 for the shortcut)
8. Edit>Paste in Place (you will have the copy of the circle and rectangle in the same position they were in when you copied)
9. Move the rectangle so that the right side snaps to the center
10. Select both
11. Object>Pathfinder>Subtract (you will now have the right side of the circle)
12. Object>Show All on Spread (or Option Command 3 for the shortcut)

1. Create a Gradient with 4 stoppers: RED—RED—GREEN—GREEN

2. The position of the stoppers are: 0%—50%—50%—100% (it is correct to have 2 on the first place, you might start to put them first to 0—30—60—100 and move it then to their final position)

3. You can apply this gradient as Color where you want, fill, stroke, text, text stroke. In you example to the fill.

I've never found you need more than the two stops at the 50% (or other mid-point if yo want an unequal fill) point.

Hi,

Willi has a good idea (gradient) using a simple grep style:

BTW,

I was over at MyFonts.com purchasing some fonts for a job and ran across one of Ray Larabie's (Typodermic.com) fonts that uses OTF features to move characters typed in a given sequence. I mention this because it too is a solution and can have characters/numbers up 6 places. I think it would be relatively easy to GREP the styles needed for each of the parts and this is a means of keeping the numbers in a true circle.

I don't know which means would be easier. I suppose the paragraph and character styles I created for my example above is the easiest as long as one doesn't need to go beyond the number 20, which is as high as those characters go in Calibri.

The screen shots are from within the application I was using at the time and show its story editor. First screen shot is the characters used to produce each number, which in turn is the second screen shot when I turn on the formatting in the story editor. Because the story editor swaps out the paper color (white) for black for viewability, the last screen shot is on the page.

Hi MW Design,

Apparently, you go to 20! I go to 999! … The winner is … ?  

Dunno. It is the font Calibri's limitation, I believe. Not mine...

Aha! 

First, you win. Hope neither of us need so many numbers for anything...

How many can you do without distorting the numbers? Is the text live?

Aha! I don't win! Done for fun! 

The best (until 99) I do with an "acceptable" distortion: 87% scale / 20% approach. I use Arial black font. I think it can be played with these settings.

The font is pretty fun to play with. Might just have to figure out a way to work it into a design to justify the few bucks I paid for it...

Glad you got to a solution you can have confidence in.

This was one hilarious thread!

We aim to amuse...Heck, I learned stuff aside from the easy font solution. Fun & Learning. What can be better?

Yeah! Totally right! What can be better than Fun & Learning and I like this kind of discussion between Gentlemen!!