Your gradient will not survive the vinyl cutter
Airbrushed lettering dies at the vinyl cutter: no edge to follow, no colour to separate. The Vexy Lines case study: lettering rebuilds the glow as flat vector structure: halftone stars sized by brightness, masked outlines, hand-tuned Béziers. The result cuts cleanly at 2 meters, separates to spot colours, and stays editable the whole way.
We turned a soft, low-res airbrush mark into ultrasharp vectors using seven Vexy Lines fills. Best part? Not one of them uses an actual gradient or pixel texture!
A halftone fill scatters stars whose size tracks the tone of the original, so the glow becomes dots you can cut. Hand-drawn shells get their outer edge auto-traced, then tightened by hand with the simple Vexy Lines curve editor. We added a teal core by masking and shrinking the outline, plus a darker halftone fill inside the same mask for texture.
Every soft transition is now a hard-edged path or a field of countable marks. That is the difference between a picture of your wordmark, and a wordmark that the machine can actually reproduce.