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Just want to support this idea. Glyphs palette is necessity. Not just because of the icon fonts. Every serious (professional) designer needs full control on all the glyphs in any font.

Just want to support this idea. Glyphs palette is necessity. Not just because of the icon fonts. Every serious (professional) designer needs full control on all the glyphs in any font.

Just want to support this idea. Glyphs palette is necessity. Not just because of the icon fonts. Every serious (professional) designer needs full control on all the glyphs in any font.

Just want to support this idea. Glyphs palette is necessity. Not just because of the icon fonts. Every serious (professional) designer needs full control on all the glyphs in any font.

The UI really should scale automatically based on device. Imagine with the upcoming port to iPad--there has to be a way to fit things on a screen in a useful way, regardless of size and proportion.

Hi, first of all thank you for this great software, recently I stated using it to draw websites mockups and I love it.
The biggest problem in designing websites I perceived is the lack of an appropriate gird system: now i'm using guides, but I have to place all my artboards one below the other due to the artboard context guides bug (If i duplicate the artboard and move it to the right, the guides stand still and go off canvas, not be rebased on the new context).
The integrated grid system would be great and really suitable for webdesign needs (thanks to his gutter feature), but the problem is that it always starts from (0,0), but often a website needs the grid in the centered wrapper.
 
It could be possible to implement the feature to offsetting the starting point of the grid?
 
With this feature, for exemple for an artboard of 1366px and a centered wrapper of 960px, i could simply calculate the width of every column and gutter and then set the starting point at (1366px - 960px) / 2 = 203px.
 
In the case you can't or won't implement this solution, there could be another solutions to simplify webdesigners life and make Affinity Designer a perfect tool for drawing websites:
- Implement the "Convert Object to Guide" feature, like inkscape
- Implement a "guide presets" feature, so everyone could create his presets and apply them any time thay need
 
Thank you very much for your attention :)
 

Hi lordgiotto,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
The Artboards/grids implementation isn't completed yet. We are aware of the issues with the grids and artboards.
There will be changes later to address those concerns including changing the origin point.

Hi!
 
Today icon fonts are a de-facto in UI design and there are tons of libraries available.
It would be very useful to have a glyph palette or studio to list them all for quick&dirty usage in projects. 
 
Just a simple grid should work.
Pick or double click to insert them in a text object.
 
I know you love to do things "the very Serif way" so candies such as CSS escape code or hex code label for each character should be a well praised feature!  :)
 
Cheers!