[Ewan Stevenson]

*Clink*

The penny drops! Got it now.

I’d thought that the white part of the compound shape in your first diagram was cut out from the black bit when it was just, well, white!

Thanks again and sorry you had to draw more things for my meagre brain 😉

Regards,
Ewan

[Ewan Stevenson]

I’ve just had a go with your suggestion but it doesn’t address my original problem – when the icon background (the black area in your example) has a gradient mesh, it won’t work.

Is there a way around this?

[Ewan Stevenson]

Thanks for your illustrations – I’d posted my reply before realising you’d added to your original. I’ll give it a go tomorrow.

Ewan

[Ewan Stevenson]

Thanks very much for your reply but I’m still a little confused about how to implement your workflow. Could you perhaps explain it with reference to these parts of the icon:

The background is a rounded square with the shading applied using the mask tool:

This is overlaid with one of the symbols I want to use; here, a phone:

I’m wanting the phone to have similar shading to the lettering in the sample I originally referred to (hadn’t realised before that I could have embedded it!):

Sorry if I’m being a bit slow in picking it up but my current long hours are taking their toll; one of the ‘perks’ of being self-employed 😉

Thanks again,
Ewan