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Creating Lettering 53 Working with Color With Pacesetter BES Lettering, you are able to choose a text item's color from a large variety of thread colors. You apply the color by selecting from the colors available in your currently loaded thread palette. For more information on how to use the thread palette, and how to change the current thread palette, see "Working with the Color Palette." Changing the Color of a Text Segment The following procedure applies to situations where you want to simply change the thread color of an existing text segment to a new color. To change a the thread color of a Text item: 1 Do one of the following.  Select the text item in the workspace, using either the Select tool or one of the text tools.  Click on the text item in the Sequence view. 2 In the Color Palette, click the color box with the thread color you want to use. If you hover over a color square on the Palette, the thread type and number will show beside the mouse pointer. Creating Multi-color Text Segments When you are creating design compositions involving lettering, you may find that you want to have two or more colors in a single line of text. In Pacesetter BES Lettering, this can be easily done using the Properties panel. You accomplish this by inserting a special character, the tilde (~) into your text. Inserting these characters divides your text segment into sub-segments; each of the sub-segments that are created this way gets its own color identifier label (Color1,

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Creating Lettering
53
Working with Color
With Pacesetter BES Lettering, you are able to choose a text
item’s color from a large variety of thread colors. You apply the
color by selecting from the colors available in your currently
loaded thread palette.
For more information on how to use the thread palette, and how
to change the current thread palette, see “Working with the
Color Palette.”
Changing the Color of a Text
Segment
The following procedure applies to situations where you want to
simply change the thread color of an existing text segment to a
new color.
To change a the thread color of a Text item:
1
Do one of the following.
Select the text item in the workspace, using either the
Select tool or one of the text tools.
Click on the text item in the Sequence view.
2
In the Color Palette, click the color box with the thread color
you want to use.
Creating Multi-color Text Segments
When you are creating design compositions involving lettering,
you may find that you want to have two or more colors in a single
line of text. In Pacesetter BES Lettering, this can be easily done
using the Properties panel.
You accomplish this by inserting a special character, the tilde (~)
into your text. Inserting these characters divides your text
segment into sub-segments; each of the sub-segments that are
created this way gets its own color identifier label (Color1,
If you hover over a color square on the Palette, the thread type
and number will show beside the mouse pointer.