: Making a dots trace font I made several styles of the same font family. How can I make one that translates it into a series of dots? (Resulting in a (round-)dot trace font)

@Cooney243

If you wanted to dork out on your solution, you could make a script in Processing to help automate the process a bit.

You can load the font as-is with the PFont function: processing.org/reference/PFont.html
Generate ellipses in the shape path: processing.org/reference/ellipse_.html
And then export the forms as PDFs: processing.org/reference/libraries/pdf/index.html

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@Correia448

What about using a dot pattern as the fill on the shapes? Select the shape, and use the appearance palette to apply a dot pattern?

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@Bryan765

Is your typeface built up with strokes (as opposed to shapes)? Then, all you'll have to do is give those strokes a dotted line. In Illustrator, you'd use the stroke palette.



Then, Object > Expand the glyph.

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