Flavors made with Plaid

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  Plaid
  SCOTT×

  Effects used: Plaid

  Control	Value
  Plaid
  Mix type	Weave diagonal
  Rotation	45°
  Align to	Artboard
  Face
  Face colour	Blue Raspberry 300

  Rendered in Illustrator with JuicyType in Helvetica-Bold. Lengths are in em (fractions of the type size). Controls not listed are at their defaults.

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  3D · Strokes · Plaid
  Cat in a Hat×

  Effects used: 3D · Strokes · Plaid

  Control	Value
  Plaid
  Mix type	Horizontal
  Mirror segments	off
  Align to	Artboard
  3D
  Depth	0.05 em
  Direction	270°
  Boom	27
  Focal length	131
  Top wall colour	#666
  Side wall colour	#AAA
  Slope colour	Blue Raspberry 700 (#01598F)
  Slope style	Comic
  Strokes
  Row 1	0.005 em, Dragonfruit 900 (#530E2F)
  Raise the fill	0.001 em
  Face
  Face colour	Blue Raspberry 100

  Rendered in Illustrator with JuicyType in DoctorSoosBold. Lengths are in em (fractions of the type size). Controls not listed are at their defaults.

What you can adjust

• Design typea list of ready-made setts to start from
• Mix typeWeave diagonal, Diagonal, Vertical, Horizontal, Checkered or Mix: how warp and weft show where they cross
• Mirror segmentson/off, default on: the sett runs out and back, as real tartans do
• Rotation0–359°
• Threadthe thickness of one thread, which sets the scale of the whole cloth
• Align toArtboard or Word: whether the cloth stays put or travels with the text
• Offset X / Y−2000 to 2000 em‰: slide the pattern under the letters
• Warp and Wefteach a list of up to 16 stripes, a thread count and a colour; locked together by default
• Add pattern swatchsaves the tartan to the Swatches panel for use anywhere