Mulder

I've just created a new document with a text frame and used the Text Styles panel to edit the No Style to use Akzidenz Grotesk Extra Bold 64 pt. Then I went back to the text frame and typed my line of text. It all came out as 12 pt. Helvetica. I then went back and deleted everything except one letter, checked the No Style -> Body panel again to be sure it had the correct typeface and weight selected, then typed out my text again — and it was still all in 12 pt Helvetica. This is exactly what it says in the Body style: Base + Font: Akzidenz-Grotesk Next; Font weight: Extra-bold; Italic: Off; Font width: Normal; Font size: 64 pt No other styles are applied, so something seems a tad askew. It should not be this difficult.

Except there was no other style; it was one line of type, all set in Akzidenz Grotesk Extra Bold, 64 pt. It should not change.

Yes, I did; and that's where it allows me to select a line above or below the text. As soon as I scroll over either of them, the line appears, but the text was changed from 64 pt to 12 pt, and a different weight of the typeface.

But it did, and it does. I can't show it to you because I only tested it earlier this evening and I didn't save that test document. It's too late in the evening now to do it again, and it would only be a screen shot at best; no video.

I went to that section originally, and it doesn't say anything about putting a line above or below any selected text changing it to a completely different size than what it should be.

Well, that Help link is of no help whatsoever. It only references the Decorations area of the Paragraph panel; nowhere does it tell you how to add a line above or below any text. In fact, when I did it, the only thing it accomplished was to reduce the size of my selected text to 12 pt, and put a line under that. Then I had to go back and reset the font and size of the text to what it was before adding that line. That's too much work, and definitely not intuitive. With InDesign and QuarkXPress, it's easy once you remember where the panel is in those programs. Affinity needs to find a better, easier, intuitive way to do this.

I have yet to see any step-by-step instructions for how to create rules (lines) above or below text that stay with the text as it moves on the page. I'm sure it can be done and I've seen some forum topics on this before for v1.10.x, but I've never seen it actually explained in any responses to those posts. Surely, there must be someone who can explain this, or maybe it's actually documented clearly somewhere.

You can disagree, but you would still be wrong. Every time your computer has to redraw your font list for the font menu, it slows down your computer. Add in the time it takes you to pick a font from that long list and the slowdown is even greater. This is long-established fact.

Why do you need so many fonts, when you probably aren't using any more than twelve? You don't need that many. All they do is slow you down and slow down your computer when you need to pick a font. Having more fonts does not make you a better designer. You should not be trying to organize them by the designer; you should organize them by font family and type. You can and should make a waterfall printout of each font and weight, and put those in a notebook separated by Serif, Sans Serif, Slab Serif, etc. Pick the twelve fonts you consistently use and put everything else onto two different backup drives in different locations in case the worst happens. Other than that, you should probably seek therapy.