{"id":48,"date":"2007-02-01T16:01:49","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T20:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whoisgregg.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/multiple-transparent-borders.html"},"modified":"2007-02-01T16:01:49","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T20:01:49","slug":"multiple-transparent-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/multiple-transparent-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Transparent Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img id=\"image47\" src=\"http:\/\/whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/multiple-borders-example.png\" alt=\"Multiple Borders Example\" class=\"fr\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When drawing a text string that has multiple text borders like, for example, the [family reunion t-shirt design here](http:\/\/www.getyourshirts.com\/t-shirts\/reunion\/sp412.html), you have unique issues building the multiple layers of borders.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on how you draw multiple borders you can get many different effects:<\/p>\n<p>## What&#8217;s the difference between these different approaches?<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image50\" src=\"http:\/\/whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/multiple-transparent-border-test.png\" alt=\"Multiple Border Tests\" \/><\/p>\n<p>## Answers<\/p>\n<p>In option C, each letter is individually drawn starting at the largest border then working inwards to the fill. When drawing arced text, each letter is drawn in a different position so you have to draw each letter separately.<\/p>\n<p>In option B, each border is drawn with a transparent fill then the separate layers are flattened.<\/p>\n<p>In option A, the entire string is drawn starting at the largest border then working inwards to the fill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When drawing a text string that has multiple text borders like, for example, the [family reunion t-shirt design here](http:\/\/www.getyourshirts.com\/t-shirts\/reunion\/sp412.html), you have unique issues building the multiple layers of borders. Depending on how you draw multiple borders you can get many different effects: ## What&#8217;s the difference between these different approaches? ## Answers In option C,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}