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    abarkalo got a reaction from MattP in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6.1 - Beta 3)   
    Matt - thanks - now I don't have crashes when using certain fonts.  So happy that was fixed!
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    abarkalo got a reaction from Patrick Connor in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6.1 - Beta 3)   
    Matt - thanks - now I don't have crashes when using certain fonts.  So happy that was fixed!
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    abarkalo got a reaction from mondze in Refining color selection in HSL adjustment layer   
    I would like to have an easy way to change ALL the specific hues in the photo, not just in a given area using the HSL adjustment layer.  
     
    In Photo as in Photoshop I can use the HSL adjustment layer (Hue/Saturation in Photoshop).  In Photoshop I can pick from 6 colors but I can extend or restrict the color range, or use the eyedropper tool to pick the correct starting point.  In Photo, I can only manipulate the six set colors, and no eyedropper tool and seemingly no ability to extent/restrict the range.  What I can do in Photo is select Select Sampled Color and then apply an HSL adjustment - but I just can't seem to fine tune as easily.
     
    In your Black and White adjustment layer you have a Picker.  I would like something like that in Photo, or at least a method to duplicate what I do in Photoshop - see attached photo.
     
     
     

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    abarkalo got a reaction from MattP in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6.1 - Beta 1)   
    Hi Matt, a font or two keeps crashing Affinity Designer, this new beta as well as MAS 1.6 Mac.  Note that I don't have many fonts activated - being smart about that.  I restarted the app and this keeps crashing predictably - in the normal type text box, not the artistic type tool.  This time the culprit font is the new Albert Einstein font by Harald Geisler.  I tried this font in InDesign CC 2018 and I don't have that issue - so I guess until this gets figured out I will use that specific font in Indesign - such a shame as I like the live preview of all the stylistic sets, and this font has so many of these.  There are others that also crash Designer but this is the latest one and I really like it.  
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    abarkalo reacted to MattP in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6.1 - Beta 1)   
    Status: Customer Beta
    Purpose: Improvements, fixes
    Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
    Mac App Store: Not Submitted
    Download: Here
     
    To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
     
    This beta is an iteration of the current App Store release and should be used in preference to the App Store release, if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
     
    Fixes/Improvements:
    Fixed sporadic hanging when opening many image files at once. Fixed crashing bug when exporting certain large PSDs. Fixed a number of UI memory leaks. Added special case PSD import code for “SketchClub” PSD files (they should fix this!). Fixed PSD export of Fill layers. Fixed UI labels on macOS versions prior to Mavericks. SVG import can now handle gradients with missing x1 or y1 values. Assorted PDF export improvements. Localisation improvements. Paste and file-drop of PDF format files will now honour the DPI, as per File->Place. Fix for marching ants not showing on a rotated canvas. Miscellaneous other fixes and tweaks.
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    abarkalo got a reaction from MattP in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - RC1)   
    This thing is a Bugatti Veyron, so if you're telling me I can only drive 250 MPH, not 267 MPH, and it handles better around corners that way then I am quite OK with that.  
     
    Please update a 1.6 video.  I would like to promote that to my friends and on FB and elsewhere.  
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    abarkalo reacted to MattP in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - RC1)   
    On High Sierra right now I’d use OpenGL - it’s not quite as smooth but you’re guaranteed to get no strange things happening. I have to assume there’s a Metal fix coming in High Sierra soon as we aren’t the only developers to have found quite a few oddities that we can’t work around...
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    abarkalo got a reaction from MattP in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - RC1)   
    Entire Affinity Team - thank you for your hard work.  Now enjoying the official MAS version of 1.6.  Only question I have is whether to use OpenGL or Metal as I know there were some issues  with Metal, and Matt and team spent some time updating OpenGL to match Metal.  I'm on High Sierra.
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    abarkalo got a reaction from Futtocks in Font Manager   
    Here's my own review of RightFont, how I made it work for me, and my opinions of others including Mac's own Font Book - and why I think Font Book is lacking.  Also writing here because it works great in Affinity products.
     
    First of all, as a designer like many of us here, I have thousands of fonts, and also I sometimes use Google Fonts, and since I have Adobe's Creative Cloud installed I also have TypeKit fonts.  That's a lot of stuff to manage.  Then I also have a desktop and a laptop, and organizing everything across different machines is a bit of a pain.
     
    The issue with Font Book is that I had a mess with duplicate fonts, or in one machine I may not have had a font installed, and there is no cloud sync - each machine is on its own.  Also Google offers 1443 fonts (733 families) of fonts which is offers for free!  Granted not all of them are great but some are widely used like for web like Roboto, Open Sans etc.  If I wanted to install ALL of these Google fonts it would be a pain.  If I wanted to deactivate all except a few after I activated them all, it would seem like a lot of work.
     
    I have a Dropbox folder called Installed Fonts.  I have deleted all User fonts from Font Book - don't need to add anything in there.  This sounds scary, I know, but be assured that when RightFont then activates your fonts, they will be in your system to use in all apps - but RightFont is taking the place of FontBook to manage.  All my fonts, whether in folders or just tons of fonts out of folders, is only in the Dropbox folder.  Thousands.  Since it's Dropbox it syncs across machines.  I created an alias of this folder and designed a cool ICNS font and the alias sits on my desktop.  OK so now when I download fonts to the desktop I just drag and drop to this alias desktop folder.  If I am dragging a font folder, into the fonts folder, I make sure to clean it up first.  If there are duplicate fonts - typically you get TTF and OTF types - I only keep OTF (it's better).  I take out any TXT info etc.
     
    In RightFont, I have added the Dropbox font folder as a live folder.  I have also set the preferences to instantly activate all fonts as soon as they are added in.  You can also just go to the folder within RightFont, select all, activate all or deactivate all if you want to do things manually.  Next, in preferences you can add in Google fonts, either sort by name or font popularity.  They have already done all the integration - you don't need to go to Google Fonts itself.  Next, go to the Google Fonts folder, select all, activate all.  Presto done. 1433 fonts just added and activated.  If you have Creative Cloud installed, it will also list the Typekit folder. 
     
    Activation/deactivation is super fast.  It took 3 minutes to activate over 3000 fonts and about two minutes for the entire Google library.  Try doing that with Font Book. 
     
    Next what I do is start favoriting all fonts, and even create list folders - for one project or another, or perhaps lists like sketch fonts, handwritten, other very specific styles, etc.  Right now RightFont doesn't offer syncing of those non-live lists across multiple machines, although I emailed the developer and they said that it's probably coming in a future release.  Also I asked them about the ability to scan a JPEG/PNG or doc and identify fonts and also they don't do this now but are working on it for an upcoming release - that would be great. Right now, RightFont allows you to search between serif, sans, slab and then font weights, condensed type, to aid in your search. I found that feature ok, but could use some refinement. It certainly did filter the list but not accurately on occasion - maybe the font metadata was corrupt on some of my fonts, who knows. Good enough for now.  As for icon fonts that it offers, I find that less useful.  I subscribe to the Noun Project - and everyone here should ($40/year) and you have gazillions of icons that you can customize color and export as SVG or PNG - really useful for design work.
     
    Which brings me to font identification:  Nothing does that really well.  Photoshop is so-so and I tested it with documents that I created from fonts I have installed - it wasn't very accurate most of the time. Affinity really needs to build that in because Suitcase Extensis (and I haven't tried FontExplorer so I can't comment on that here) and Font Genius (which is non-retina and really bad so don't try that!) are not so great.  Like many here, I use MyFonts.com's What the Font and, while that gives the results in MyFonts and fonts they want you to buy, it is really the best identifier and then you can search in RightFont to see if you have that font installed.  If you don't, you can get some hints for what you're trying to match, and then put in custom text in RightFont and start exploring away.   Also I have the WhatFont extension installed in Chrome.  If you're trying to match fonts on a web page then this extension is perfect, not even good, just perfect.  It identifies everything on the page (reading from HTML) and gives you the font name, size, leading and HEX code for the color used.  Just amazing.
     
    Lastly... getting back to Affinity Designer, I am able to just select text and then go through RightFont and test all the lists, favorites or general list of fonts.  You can either select text or just the text layer and either way RightFont will quickly change the font.  Highly recommend.
     
     
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    abarkalo got a reaction from Jens Krebs in Font Manager   
    Here's my own review of RightFont, how I made it work for me, and my opinions of others including Mac's own Font Book - and why I think Font Book is lacking.  Also writing here because it works great in Affinity products.
     
    First of all, as a designer like many of us here, I have thousands of fonts, and also I sometimes use Google Fonts, and since I have Adobe's Creative Cloud installed I also have TypeKit fonts.  That's a lot of stuff to manage.  Then I also have a desktop and a laptop, and organizing everything across different machines is a bit of a pain.
     
    The issue with Font Book is that I had a mess with duplicate fonts, or in one machine I may not have had a font installed, and there is no cloud sync - each machine is on its own.  Also Google offers 1443 fonts (733 families) of fonts which is offers for free!  Granted not all of them are great but some are widely used like for web like Roboto, Open Sans etc.  If I wanted to install ALL of these Google fonts it would be a pain.  If I wanted to deactivate all except a few after I activated them all, it would seem like a lot of work.
     
    I have a Dropbox folder called Installed Fonts.  I have deleted all User fonts from Font Book - don't need to add anything in there.  This sounds scary, I know, but be assured that when RightFont then activates your fonts, they will be in your system to use in all apps - but RightFont is taking the place of FontBook to manage.  All my fonts, whether in folders or just tons of fonts out of folders, is only in the Dropbox folder.  Thousands.  Since it's Dropbox it syncs across machines.  I created an alias of this folder and designed a cool ICNS font and the alias sits on my desktop.  OK so now when I download fonts to the desktop I just drag and drop to this alias desktop folder.  If I am dragging a font folder, into the fonts folder, I make sure to clean it up first.  If there are duplicate fonts - typically you get TTF and OTF types - I only keep OTF (it's better).  I take out any TXT info etc.
     
    In RightFont, I have added the Dropbox font folder as a live folder.  I have also set the preferences to instantly activate all fonts as soon as they are added in.  You can also just go to the folder within RightFont, select all, activate all or deactivate all if you want to do things manually.  Next, in preferences you can add in Google fonts, either sort by name or font popularity.  They have already done all the integration - you don't need to go to Google Fonts itself.  Next, go to the Google Fonts folder, select all, activate all.  Presto done. 1433 fonts just added and activated.  If you have Creative Cloud installed, it will also list the Typekit folder. 
     
    Activation/deactivation is super fast.  It took 3 minutes to activate over 3000 fonts and about two minutes for the entire Google library.  Try doing that with Font Book. 
     
    Next what I do is start favoriting all fonts, and even create list folders - for one project or another, or perhaps lists like sketch fonts, handwritten, other very specific styles, etc.  Right now RightFont doesn't offer syncing of those non-live lists across multiple machines, although I emailed the developer and they said that it's probably coming in a future release.  Also I asked them about the ability to scan a JPEG/PNG or doc and identify fonts and also they don't do this now but are working on it for an upcoming release - that would be great. Right now, RightFont allows you to search between serif, sans, slab and then font weights, condensed type, to aid in your search. I found that feature ok, but could use some refinement. It certainly did filter the list but not accurately on occasion - maybe the font metadata was corrupt on some of my fonts, who knows. Good enough for now.  As for icon fonts that it offers, I find that less useful.  I subscribe to the Noun Project - and everyone here should ($40/year) and you have gazillions of icons that you can customize color and export as SVG or PNG - really useful for design work.
     
    Which brings me to font identification:  Nothing does that really well.  Photoshop is so-so and I tested it with documents that I created from fonts I have installed - it wasn't very accurate most of the time. Affinity really needs to build that in because Suitcase Extensis (and I haven't tried FontExplorer so I can't comment on that here) and Font Genius (which is non-retina and really bad so don't try that!) are not so great.  Like many here, I use MyFonts.com's What the Font and, while that gives the results in MyFonts and fonts they want you to buy, it is really the best identifier and then you can search in RightFont to see if you have that font installed.  If you don't, you can get some hints for what you're trying to match, and then put in custom text in RightFont and start exploring away.   Also I have the WhatFont extension installed in Chrome.  If you're trying to match fonts on a web page then this extension is perfect, not even good, just perfect.  It identifies everything on the page (reading from HTML) and gives you the font name, size, leading and HEX code for the color used.  Just amazing.
     
    Lastly... getting back to Affinity Designer, I am able to just select text and then go through RightFont and test all the lists, favorites or general list of fonts.  You can either select text or just the text layer and either way RightFont will quickly change the font.  Highly recommend.
     
     
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    abarkalo got a reaction from MattP in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 10)   
    Matt - you beat me to it.  I was just going to say that this is a font overload issue.  I think the upper limit before these errors happen is about 1000 fonts - nothing to do with disk errors. (I have many more than that). My iMac had the same exact problem.  I disabled all on Extensis Suitcase and created project sets for the fonts I use per project. It now runs super fast but I'm losing the ability to test out fonts on the fly  (I wish there was a plugin to auto activate  fonts).
     
    But the MAS version doesn't have this issue.  And it doesn't crash on the Typography styles panel like the beta does on a particular font.  
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    abarkalo got a reaction from MattP in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 9)   
    Matt - the only feature I would really love is some way to locate missing fonts in a document.  It is so time consuming to check every embedded document, every layer on a very big multi-artboard for that missing font in the haystack. Sometimes I update a font in my system (for instance LT to Pro) and then some itsy bitsy embedded design is using the old font. Ideally, I would love to have a system like InDesign Preflight - which points you to the error in the document.  You guys already go to the layer when selecting on the document, so something like this.
     
    Alternatively - and maybe an easier way to do it and based on something you already do - is to notify on missing fonts when opening the document.  Currently, a pop up message notifies on missing fonts, but that's it.  But consider that when you open/convert a PDF, you do get a list of missing fonts and then have the ability to change the fonts to something else right then and there.  Can something like this be put in place for Affinity documents, not just for converted documents?
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    abarkalo got a reaction from bagmetv in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 9)   
    Tested Beta 9 today on my 30 artboard layout.  In Beta 8 it worked well but there was white glitchiness and text ghosting and often my MacBook fan got loud.  Not with this beta 9 puppy!  Great work all around.  
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    abarkalo got a reaction from Chris B in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 9)   
    Tested Beta 9 today on my 30 artboard layout.  In Beta 8 it worked well but there was white glitchiness and text ghosting and often my MacBook fan got loud.  Not with this beta 9 puppy!  Great work all around.  
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    abarkalo got a reaction from MattP in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 9)   
    Tested Beta 9 today on my 30 artboard layout.  In Beta 8 it worked well but there was white glitchiness and text ghosting and often my MacBook fan got loud.  Not with this beta 9 puppy!  Great work all around.  
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    abarkalo got a reaction from mirkoschieder in Inpainting brush in Designer (Pixel Persona)   
    It would be great to occasionally do some inpainting or blemish removal of an image I have in Designer.  Yes I do know that I have a full set of tools in Photo, but sometimes I just need to make a slight correction and it doesn't warrant this round trip.  
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    abarkalo reacted to mdriftmeyer in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 7)   
    I would target Lanczos 3 separable if it's available. Otherwise it's Bicubic->Bilinear -> Nearest Neighbor. I would expect no one but secure documents to use Lanczos 3 non-separable.
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    abarkalo reacted to mayahan in Collapse 'Artboards' with one click   
    Hi,
    I just started using Affinity Designer at work and I love it so far.
    One of the features that will really come in handy is to collapse all artboards with one shortcut key.
    I usually end up with several artboards in an Affinity Designer file and it gets pretty annoying to navigate through layers on top of layers.
    So please add this feature to the next rollout of the app.
     
     

    Thanks!
     
     
     
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    abarkalo reacted to Andy Somerfield in Affinity Photo Customer Beta - 1.6.5 (Beta 5)   
    Status: Beta Release
    Purpose: New features, fixes
    Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
    Mac App Store: Not Submitted
    Download: Here
     
    This is the fifth beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it should be considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version.
     
    To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
     
    Thanks,
     
    Affinity Photo Team 
     
    Changes this release
     
    Build with macOS High Sierra SDK, Xcode 9. Fixed panorama stitching when using Core Image RAW. Further Light UI improvements. Fixed problems with full colour brushes. PDF import improvements. Text Styles improvements. Documents which have no changes don’t require saving. Fixed floating windows in full screen mode. The visibility of the left / right studio is now saved per persona. Fixed some DNG loading regressions. Fixed drag behaviour in the Curves tool. Develop now has button to rotate the image. Fix issue where documents could get stuck when loading. Node tool now allows rotation of nodes. Fixed many localisation truncations. Fixed Shadows & Highlights filter artefacts. Live Halftone filter UI improvements. Selection brush was not remembering size between uses. HSL adjustment now contributes per-channel adjustments to exported LUT. Mitigated Live Perspective crashes. Liquify now behaves correctly on rotated images. Fixed occasional layer corruption under extreme load. Stopped Liquify slightly blurring images (with Metal Compute enabled). Numerous adjustment now do not pollute the K channel in CMYK (with Metal Compute enabled). Fixed halftone filter in CMYK (with Metal Compute enabled). Localisation improvements. Numerous other small fixes and improvements. Help improvements.  
    Changes since last App Store release
     
    New “Live Halftone” filter. Added noise reduction slider to “New HDR Merge” panel. Added menu to layers panel with an “Auto-scroll” item (to quickly enable / disable). Importing ASE files now supports spot colours. Increased performance of Metal compute mode. Increased the maximum size of the liquify brush tools. Fixed some grid drag / drop issues. Improved Metal compute acceleration of HDR merge. Small SVG import improvements. Further TIFF import improvements / fixes. Better quality equirectangular projection previews if Metal compute enabled. Fixed Diffuse Glow opacity slider. “Always show brush crosshair” is more completely obeyed. Fixed vignette artefacts. Colour correction fixes for Metal view on AMD cards. Fixed issues with the quick mask toolbar dropdown. Fixed crashing on export / save. Numerous other small fixes. Improved localisation.  
    Selection refinement performance improvements. Show progress when committing a refined selection. Handle layers with 0 width / height more correctly. Improved PDF / vector export. Remember Align To settings between sessions. Opening and saving document will now support macOS filesystem tags correctly. Export panel also support tags correctly. Improved RAW support - more cameras etc. Further efforts to reduce the size of the application binary. Improved TIFF loading correctness. Fixed some “Effects” brushes looking wrong on masks / adjustments. Prevent Tone Map being macro recorded (proper support for it will be reintroduced later). The “Undo” brush should do nothing on masks / adjustments. Fixed crash when using File -> New Batch Job in light UI mode. Fixed crash when loading a document with an OCIO space which is no longer available. Support malformed 8bit grayscale TIFFs (which were loading as sRGB). Fixed some scroll bar panel issues in light UI. Fixed Ctrl-reset startup crash in light UI. Fixed some flickering issues with sliders. Removed “Set as Default” for Pantone palettes. Improved drag & drop in the Library page. Numerous other small fixes. Localisation improvements (especially Russian).  
    Metal compute acceleration. Significant improvements to light UI. Metal display acceleration. Custom brush wet edges. Outlier stacking mode. Fixed Export LUT Red/Blue swapping bug. Fixed inability to hold shift and click in brush tools to create a straight line. Improved Photoshop Plugin support. Fixed bad / crashing macros cause by recording a 32bit preview mode change. Fixed B&C macro arguments issues. Fixed info panel samplers not being drawn. Fixed artefacts with Live Filters. Improved Live Filters performance Pasting pixel data should always past pixel-aligned. Fixed inability to load Procreate PSD files. Localisation improvements. Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements  
    First and foremost, the 1.6 version is mainly about: Light UI! (go to Preferences->User Interface) Improved view pan/zoom performance and new pixel-differencing pixel shader Improved performance with large documents New font chooser dropdown with recents, used fonts and favourites New Glyph browser Stroke stabiliser for all pencil and brush tools Align to key items (first/last selected) Text frame vertical alignment options Fit frame to text (double-click on bottom centre handle). Transform panel uses the rotation centre Scale/shear can now be performed about rotation centre Double-click now resets shape handles and rotate/shear handles Many PDF export improvements including vector export of multi-stop gradients Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements
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    abarkalo got a reaction from tanias_reign in Organized Typography   
    Just an idea - but wondering if it's something of interest to others:
     
    Now that 1.6 Beta has Used/Favorite font categories - which I love - it would be great to have the ability to organize by user-created categories.  For instance, I would organize into Headline, Body, Distressed, Geometric, Grotesk, Typewriter etc.  I know that Font Book has categories but the problem is that it doesn't pick up fonts that I installed under RightFont, and it certainly doesn't pick up rented fonts under Typekit or Skyfonts.  But I care about these font categories really in Affinity Designer, or Photo (but more so Designer) and for sure the upcoming Publisher.  The idea is that once they are installed, however you installed them, then they are ready for use in Designer, so that should be the program to handle this.  Alternatively, RightFont can also do this but they don't have Skyfonts integrated yet.  
     
     
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    abarkalo got a reaction from Alfred in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 8)   
    Yup, you're right except for my comments in another thread asking the community what they thought about further categorizing favorites.  
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    abarkalo got a reaction from A_B_C in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 8)   
    I only have a couple dozen high quality families but a lot of variants within.  I have a lot of creative, yes TTF fonts as well - brush, script, distressed etc.  I prefer to have the font as a non-subscription, but given that my client (entertainment industry) wants the classics, and the exact form of it, and then maybe some very artistic headline fonts (which I rework as well in outline form) I was just pointing out the economic value of the Monotype subscription. For instance DIN Next was one strict requirement for a gaming client - and that will run $500 for each family version. There is also lot of free stuff out there - Behance or download to own (Envato - great subscription) etc.  But the classic families are super expensive - in the thousands sometimes. 
     
    So as far as CPU, memory and bandwidth I have a lot of that stuff to spare.  Still, not going to install thousands of fonts!  But I was just commenting on the Google fonts issues you were having. Relieved a lot of trouble by uninstalling them.  Anyway, everyone is different. 
  23. Like
    abarkalo reacted to Alfred in Organized Typography   
    I think that is what the OP was asking for a year ago. I would like to see this too.
     
  24. Like
    abarkalo got a reaction from MattP in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 8)   
    Problem with Google Fonts is that most of them are not great, and also all of them are TrueType (TTF) - a much older format and inferior to OTF, which provides elegant and advanced ligatures.  Even worse, I have found a lot of the fonts lacking coherence and artistic value, or any sense of elegance.  Just get rid of Google Fonts except maybe Roboto, Open Sans - maybe that's it.  
     
    Also, since I am (still) a Creative Cloud member (year commitment not done yet - and maybe just in time for Publisher...) I have Typekit.  But the problem with Typekit is that you only get 100 fonts at a time under the Creative Cloud plan - really limiting for designers that want to experiment with fonts.  Also their font library is quite limited.  And then you have to buy fonts individually if you want a better selection.
     
    Which brings me to the best solution - Monotype library subscription available at either MyFonts.com or Fonts.com (same company - Monotype own Linotype and Myfonts, Fonts.com, Bitstream, Fontshop, lots of others).  It's $115 a year or $15 a month approx.  I really am getting a lot of use out of it. You have to sync your fonts via Skyfonts - yet another sync thingie operating on your menubar - but it doesn't take up CPU (0.1% vs Creative Cloud app's 3.5%+). Right now, I have over 500 fonts (all OTF and all very high quality) synced in that library, about 20 font families.  I'm using on Affinity and I just love it.  You can't get all the fonts MyFont's has to offer in this subscription but really you have a tremendous universe - 9000 fonts, all OTF except for monospaced ones.   I figure I must have $5000 or more of fonts I have synced thus far, so the yearly rental fee is quite small.  I have Univers Next, DIN Next, Trade Gothic Next, FF Meta and the classic of classics Neue Haas Grotesk among my favorites. 
     
    But a word of caution - you need to exit Affinity Designer if you are adding new fonts.  If you add a ton of fonts and Affinity Designer is open, it will cause the program to hang and you have to force quit - not something you want to do regularly.  
     
    I also wrote to RightFont to see if they can sync with Skyfonts and they are looking into it for their next release.  But 1.6 Designer Beta does a great job of marking favorites and last used - so that part is great.
     
    So do yourself a favor and flush your system of cheap TTF fonts - monotype fonts are fine but consider uninstalling the rest.  
     
     
  25. Like
    abarkalo reacted to Frank Jonen in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 8)   
    BTW, I'm editing a piece of lettering with a crap font. Someone thought it's awesome to place 7 nodes seemingly on top of each other.
    It'd be nice to have a counter for nodes as well. Not just items.
    With Google Fonts for example the availability of really terribly made fonts has increased. Tools that help coping with that decline in outline quality would certainly be welcome.
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