The Monoline Skeleton path effect applied to a sample shape
Lettering

Monoline Skeleton

Reduce a filled letterform to its spine and restroke it at one even width, which is what a pen plotter or an engraver needs to follow.

FamilyLettering
Parameters3 adjustable
On canvas handlesno, adjust it in the panel
Destructiveno, the original path is kept
LicenceFree for commercial use

The 3 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. Width0.5 to 300, default 14
  2. Simplify0 to 14, default 3
  3. Prune length0 to 300, default 8

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