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I'm not even sure I did that, to be honest. I thought I must have carelessly triggered the wrong keyboard shortcut, but now I see that there's no shortcut for this feature, so I must have accidentally selected it from the View menu at some point. I'm quite certain I've never even tested out the View menu items, as I'm not a graphic artist and just load this software occasionally to edit or convert an SVG and wouldn't even know what the menu items are supposed to mean. I guess I'm an example of what happens when you put a powerful tool in the wrong hands. 🙂

@iconoclast It was just a partial screenshot. There was a document open, the text frame was active, and the Artistic Text tool was selected. The issue did turn out to be that I had accidentally hidden the contextual menu at some point, as others have suggested. No idea how or when I managed to do that; must've been months ago.

Thanks, appreciated. I must have accidentally pressed a keyboard shortcut or something. It would be great if all the tutorials mentioned, "If you don't see this menu, it means the context menu has been hidden. Click here to unhide it." This sort of gentle help really can't be repeated often enough. I'm guessing I'm hardly the only beginner to this kind of software.

No worries, I'm not offended. Most likely I accidentally pressed a keyboard shortcut at some point when trying to do something else, and the contextual menu disappeared then. I'm sure there's a certain necessary complexity to making a powerful tool like this. Eventually it may make sense even to me, if I stick with it like @Wosven kindly suggests! Thanks to everyone for your help.

Isn't that a bit of an arrogant attitude, to be honest? Is choosing a font really a "pro" feature that should be that difficult to find?

Thanks—this is all much appreciated. The strange thing is that none of these panels were showing for me, even though I was desperately looking for them. Admittedly this is software meant for graphic designers, who probably have expectations for layers and buttons and panels and the like, but maybe there's some way to make it friendlier to casual users looking to perform very basic tasks? The help menu, search feature, user manual, tutorial videos—none of these mentioned that these panels need to be enabled, let alone how to do so. I'm sure it's all in there, but reading the whole manual just to find out how to change a font seems like overkill.

Thanks very much for the quick reply. (How on earth would any new user guess that there's something called a "context toolbar" that we need to enable just to change a font?)

Hello, I'm afraid I'm going mad trying to find out how to do something as basic as changing a font. I have the Artistic Text Tool selected, entered some text using the default font, double-clicked that text, have the text layer selected, but nowhere is any font menu visible. I've looked everywhere, searched every help file, watched video tutorials, you name it, but there's just no font menu anywhere. I'm using Affinity Designer 1.9.3 on macOS (latest versions of OS and all software). I've tried customizing the toolbar, also to no avail. Can anyone kindly explain: How do we change the font of text we've entered in Designer? A screenshot with the exact things to click would be greatly appreciated. Please note that I'm just a casual user, not a graphic design pro. This is the software I purchased for occasional vector editing when needed, so please go easy on me. Thanks in advance.

Thanks so much, Matt! I would have never figured that out on my own. The SVG export works now, and the exported file correctly displays as a circle in both Finder and Safari. Strangely, though, when I open the exported SVG in Affinity Designer, it has the original shape and there's no circle to be found among the layers.

Sure, here are the source and exported SVG files: http://d.pr/f/1e5jv

P.S. If it would help I can upload the files.

Hi Matt, thanks for your quick reply. It does look to be a problem with export, at least in my case. (Or it could be that as a beginner I don't know what I'm doing.) When I export as vectors (with no rasterization selected), the inverse of the masked image seen in Affinity Designer gets exported. I see this both in Finder and when I show the exported SVG in Safari. Any other ideas?

I created a vector mask according to the instructions in the help file ("Mask to Below"). The file consists of vector shapes, which I grouped, plus a circle mask. The goal is to see only what's inside the circle. In Affinity Designer, everything displays perfectly, yet upon export the mask is inverted and only what I want to remove from the original image is displayed. If I check "Rasterize unsupported effects," however, then the file exports and only what's inside the circle is shown, but I get a rasterized object in an SVG wrapper, which is exactly what I don't want. (Is a vector mask somehow an unsupported effect?) How can I export the file in SVG format only as vectors? Many thanks in advance for any assistance. (I'm an Affinity Designer beginner.)