Alfred

That’s a total of ×64, not ×128. It probably doesn’t make much (if any) difference, but was there any particular reason for the uneven steps? It seems more natural to do ×8 twice.

I’m pretty sure you meant to type ‘using Drag and Drop’, but I just wanted to Czech!

Thanks. I probably saw it there when I first visited the thread, but that was way too long ago now!

Honk ‘Shadow Length’ (SHLN) doesn’t work. It should be able to do what you see in the GIF near the top of this page (see the latter part of the animation):

I wasn’t looking in the right place! You need to go to ‘Text Studio > Character > Variations’.

You’re welcome! And yes, they’re all free. https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq

Try here: https://fonts.google.com/variablefonts

It works to get the typeface installed, but all I see here is a choice of individual weights/styles. There’s no UI for the VF axes.

I’ve just tried again with AnyFont. It responded with the following message:

I don’t think there is another way at the moment. I got the same message from iFont when I tried to install Inter earlier this evening.

That is probably the single most important question here! This in what your sample word looks like when I choose Sarabun:

One could argue that it is actually an Affinity issue. The controls for OpenType ‘registered’ axes such as wght, wdth, and opsz are labelled with human-readable names — Weight, Width, and OpticalSize, respectively, for the above examples — so ‘foundry-defined’ axes (identified by uppercase letters) should be treated the same way, wherever practicable.

They’re also too close together. Each of the ß and À characters in that screenshot collides with the characters in the line immediately above.

When one of the Shape Tools is active, a ‘Keep selected’ checkbox is displayed on the Context toolbar. Make sure there’s a tick in that box.

The Export Persona is complicated because it’s so flexible. If you don’t need that flexibility, you can simply choose ‘Export…’ from the File menu to export all or selected parts of the current document.