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The Ball Terminals path effect applied to a sample shape
Lettering

Ball Terminals

Round the curled ends of a Didone a, c or y into blobs, with count and a curvature floor deciding which tips qualify.

Open in the editor More lettering path effects
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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. Radius0.5 to 300, default 12
  2. Count1 to 24, default 6
  3. Min curvature0 to 100, default 25

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