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Is it possible to fill a shape or letter ( alphabet, Indic etc ) with random dots ? ie, when the base is removed, the letter will appear as if made of dots. Something like we can see below

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My goal is to achieve this for an Indic language. I hope it as simple as drawing a circle or diamond and then make it fit inside the shape. So that the letter of the font will look like they are made up of dots.

I am an Inkscape + Ubuntu 18.04 user. Thanks.

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    It would be much easier to use a dot matrix font. There are some here. Sorry I don't know if there any made for Indic scripts. – Billy Kerr Mar 27 '20 at 11:37
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    You could fill letters with a custom pattern in Inkscape, however it's highly unlikely that the dots will fit perfectly within the letters as per your example. – Billy Kerr Mar 27 '20 at 11:40
  • Maybe some method to fill in a square with circles, perfectly. And if we can do the same for any shape. Please ignore the font part. I just mentioned it. At this point asking about filling a shape with circles or diamond shaped pieces seems more productive. Thanks – user227495 Mar 27 '20 at 11:53
  • Are you really asking about random dots, or dots in a grid? For random, there's a way to do this with the spray tool - but it looks more like you're actually looking for the opposite of 'random'. – Moini Mar 28 '20 at 0:06
  • Yes, I should have mentioned grid. Thanks – user227495 Mar 28 '20 at 2:49
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Personally I would use a dot matrix font for this, because it would be much easier, and look more like your example. There are many available online such as those here. I have no affiliation with that website.

Another method is to make a custom pattern in Inkscape, and use the pattern as a fill.

This pattern is made of one square with a black fill, and then another square with no fill on top, to make a space around it.

This example is zoomed in so you can see it. The actual size is small.

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Then select both shapes and do Object > Pattern > Objects to Pattern

Next, apply the pattern as a fill to some text in the Fill and Stroke panel > Fill Tab

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  • It works fine for me. Thanks. – user227495 Mar 27 '20 at 14:01
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I once published a raster font on my blog, but in iso-latin-15, it is not prepared for Indian fonts, but maybe you can adapt or transform it for your needs.

There is a link in the blogpost, which links to an older explanation and version, which is only available in German, but you should be able to translate it to English with DeepL.

I made the characters from holes, to allow them to overlay an image or a filled shape witih gradient. If you have questions about it, I'm glad to try to answer them, although I rarely used the font myself. enter image description here

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