MarkG

At the very least, Adobe should be glancing nervously over its shoulder...

No. What's more, I've never owned or used a font of this name. I wondered if it was used in one of the samples or tutorials offered in the start up panel. The current copies of the Affinity suite are fresh copies I downloaded the other day when I was having that "App Store won't update" problem. I deleted my copies in an attempt to get App Store to reinstall them. The same messages pop up with the fresh copies, too. Oddly, when I ignore the missing font warning, the program opens without complaint. There are no open documents when it does. Also, oddly, the same message appears for all three Affinity programs. I can certainly live with it; it was just wondering if anyone else has experience this problem.

Here you go. I think this is a message from my font manager, FontExplorer X Pro, but I can't figure out why all my Affinity products request it on launch...

All of my Affinity apps have begun giving this message at launch: "Affinity [program name] needs the font named Cold Blood." Problem is, I've never heard of the font. Is this some kind of interface font that should have been installed on my system? I tell it to ignore the message and the program works normally, as far as I can tell. I can't turn anything up about this in a forum search or a general web search. What's going on here? Using fresh installs of 1.9 on a Mac with with OS 10.14.6

Adobe only seems to innovate when they have stiff competition. (Except for innovating new ways to continually suck money out of our wallets for mere maintenance releases.) Usually they purchase the competition and then stop improving their own program once the competition is gone. Case in point: Freehand. While it ran neck and neck with Illustrator, both programs saw continual improvement. Once they had it in their grasp, it was killed and Illustrator became pretty stagnant. There are still feature that Freehand had that have never been brought into Illustrator. That's what makes Affinity so exciting. Its the first true competition Adobe has faced in some time. Hopefully they can resist the siren song of Adobe's acquisition lawyers....

Ah, that Freehand example at the beginning of this thread! It reminds me of how much I lost when Adobe killed FreeHand. Affinity has done a marvelous job at creating their apps from scratch, not as a mere clone of Adobe's offerings. The new workflow paradigms are one of the best features of Designer and Photo. But as is apparent in this thread, there are certain functions that need to be brought in to the programs in order to be fully competitive. I came to Affinity (and am loving it) after abandoning Adobe over the whole "rental" model. But my favorite illustration program was always Freehand, not Illustrator. All these years after acquiring and killing Freehand, Adobe still has not added many of the features to Illustrator that Freehand had. There are still things that are impossible, or at least incredibly difficult to do in Illustrator that were a cinch in Freehand. Please, development team, do not merely look to Illustrator for inspiration; take a good look at Freehand. You will discover many tools and techniques that, if brought in and given your unique polish, would give Designer a clear advantage over Illustrator. I am also incredibly pleased to hear that integration with the Astute Graphics tools is at least being contemplated....