: How to place different sized circles inside a shape How could I make something like this? I know how to place text inside a shape but not this. Could it be vector and scalable? Thanks

@Speyer780

This is actually doable in Illustrator (through advance scripting).
Luckily, this dude has done just what we required here.
vectorboom.com/load/tips/techniques/how_to_distribute_shapes_within_another_shape_in_illustrator/16-1-0-470
Make sure you download the scripts, and then restart Illustrator.


Create Path for outer shape (in this case a circle).
Then File > Script > Circle Fill
Set the Size Variation, Spacing, Color of the Circles that will fill up your 'outer shape'.
This will result in circles filling up your 'outer shape'
Now the catch is, this script only works for circles at first. To change the shape to something else you have to use Find&Replace command from the script.


You might also need a few extra steps for color variation of each circle. But that's not much of a problem.

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@Cugini998

There is a illustrator plugin called Colliderscribe by AstuteGraphics. This will help to do just what you are looking for in Illustrator.

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@Correia448

Okay I'm not totally sure, but this might help:


Take a circular brush
Under Brush Tip Shape Options, check Scattering and Color Dynamics and adjust the settings that suit your design best. (i would also recommend turning on Opacity jitter under Transfer)
Scatter in a random fashion
Then, using the text tool, type in the number you want on the inside with any font, and take it's selection (Alt+click)
Once selection is taken, you can delete the text layer, and use the selection to mask the scattered brush stroke to generate a similar result.


Similar process can be repeated for the outer circle; this time masking being done by a circular selection. Hope it helps! :)

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@Harper654

Not possible to generate something like this in photoshop or illustrator using native tools. Depending on your requirements and skills you could check out creating the shape and circles in a different application or programming language and exporting that as an svg or similar in to Illustrator/Photoshop and colouring it or fine tuning it from there.

I put together a proof of concept script on CodePen here: codepen.io/marblegravy/pen/cfAHi
Which I did based on a discussion here: mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/40334/generating-visually-pleasing-circle-packs
(My javascript example doesn't create svg, just bitmap, but you could scale the values in the code right up to huge proportions and dump the rendered page out to photoshop. If you used mathematica or something else and could get it to create an svg it would definitely be scalable)

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