Can I colour the same text in two different colours?

Question

I want the text to have this sort of colouring

And this is the text.

Hello and welcome to BSE. Create two materials, then select the letters in edit mode (shift+keyboard arrows) and assign them to the corresponding material in the material panel — lemon, Mar 03 '17 at 07:06

lemon · Answer 1 · 2021-03-30T07:53:14.140

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Create two materials, set their colors.

Then enter edit mode in your text.

Select the wanted letters Shiftkeyboard arrows, and assign them to the wanted material.

General indications to do that using Python:

import bpy
Get the text
o = bpy.data.objects['Text']
Get all the characters descriptions
characters = [c for c in o.data.body_format.items()]
Look at it:
for character in characters: 
    # The index of the char
    print(character[0])
    # The format to the char
    print(character[1])
Get the third char (for instance)
my_char = characters[2]
Get its format
my_char_format = my_char[1]
Assign it a (existing) material index
my_char_format.material_index = 1

edited Mar 30 '21 at 07:53

answered Mar 03 '17 at 07:16

lemon

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This is awesome. Didn't know you can assign materials to a text like this. Learned something new today :). Thnx. – Paul Gonet Mar 03 '17 at 12:08
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@PaulGonet, Blender coders are awesome... – lemon Mar 03 '17 at 12:23
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What did you use to grab your screen, with the keyboard labels in the corner and stuff? – Jason C Mar 03 '17 at 15:32
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@JasonC, it is an addon for the 3D View, called 'screencast keys' – lemon Mar 03 '17 at 16:12
That was great but after meshing the text, the color somehow reverts back to red – Truly The Craziest Mar 05 '17 at 13:38
@TrulyTheCraziest, I don't have that here. How have you meshed the text? Alt+C ? – lemon Mar 05 '17 at 13:42
Nice Answer, I need to this but using python api how would you go about it? Thanks – johnconnor Mar 29 '21 at 17:38
@johnconnor, answer edited with a simple Python code to do it. – lemon Mar 30 '21 at 07:53
@lemon Thanks a lot. – johnconnor Mar 30 '21 at 17:06

Can I colour the same text in two different colours?

1 Answers1

Get the text

Get all the characters descriptions

Look at it:

Get the third char (for instance)

Get its format

Assign it a (existing) material index

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