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How to stretch text?
nick_papageorge_dayjob
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I'm trying to stretch text to fill a space. I used a workaround of scaling the letters in the Y direction only. It fills the space, but results in the horizontal portion of each letter being much wider than the vertical portion.
Is there a FS or another "trick" that will get me good looking letters that I can stretch out?
link: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/7758e9ad3ed997d7b2478305/v/c358e570412c76e67603dab5/e/83c4e3d1b5c3661b3a3910e6?renderMode=0&uiState=6824a862d5ae6b29a1a43936
Thanks.
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You could use a series of Move Faces to try to get the result you're after, which would be easy for the T and a pain for the A. That might be fine for your needs, but to be designerly about it you'll want to do something more subtle. Typefaces are a whole thing, and the thing you're trying to do here seems like a job for a variable font. It's not just a straight scale. There are a lot of those for free on fonts.google.com. Here's an example of a variable font in action. The downside of course is having to convert that to a dxf to import and it won't be parametric.
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