Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this tutorial we'll be going over how to offset a path in Affinity Designer using the handy Contour Tool.

Path offsetting is when you change an object's size by adding or remove surface area rather than changing its overall width and height. This allows you to create things like outlines and borders of negative space.

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