The Coastline path effect applied to a sample shape
Cartography

Coastline

Roughen a smooth outline into a ragged shoreline with offshore islets, where roughness, subdivision depth and seed decide how bitten the edge becomes.

FamilyCartography
Parameters4 adjustable
On canvas handlesno, adjust it in the panel
Destructiveno, the original path is kept
LicenceFree for commercial use

The 4 controls

Nothing here is baked in. Every value stays live on the object for as long as the file exists, so you can come back and retune it, reorder it against other effects, or take it off and get your original path back exactly as you drew it.

  1. Roughness0 to 100, default 55
  2. Depth1 to 7, default 4
  3. Islets0 to 24, default 4
  4. Seed0 to 9999, default 3

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