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Can I create 2 color icon with part hidden - like a mask?

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doodler22

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Oct 16, 2006
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I have an icon that was created in Illus. It's 1 color - PMS 293 blue. It's a square filled with 100% of the blue. There are 2 letters - serif font, an 'F' and an 'a' placed on top of the box. The letters are 30% of the 293 blue. Parts of each of the letters hang over the box but are invisible/gone/masked -- whatever you want to call it. I can't place a white rule around the box to hide the edges -- sometimes this icon is placed on a color background or close to text. The color and text get cut off or are hidden.
Can this icon be created in InDesign?
I can show someone the exact illustrator icon in a pdf, if you can explain to me how to include a link to a post.
Thanks.
 
It's called a clipping mask in Illustrator.
If you don't want the overhang of the letters to show, then make a shape the same as the box with a fill and stroke of none.

Select both the shape (you just made) and the letters then got to
Object>clipping mask>make



Marcus
 
In ID, I don't have clipping mask under object. I have a clipping path or compound path.

How do I do this in ID?
 
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