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Here's how I would do it… • Duplicate the text • Convert to curves • remove "outer" edges of letter shapes • nest texture into remaining curves layer Screen Recording 2023-11-08 at 8.26.27 PM.mov

Those settings gave me white, but have to restart between changes. But that doesn't really help with your desire, which is to not have to look at the empty "workspace" when no document is open.

Looks like this setting…

You might look at Constraints. It should do some of what you're looking for. https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/DesignAids/constraints.html

Nice tool. Is there much call for the "Semi-Circular" spiral? I get that it's a recreation of the workaround people have been using, but with a true Linear spiral, I can't see a use case for it. The double-back option is nice. Could that be added to other spirals as well?

Do you have History enabled? You might be able to step back through to see what happened.

'tis a video not a screenshot

yes, but when I close the document, I get the "holes" in the UI.

present in all 3 apps.

macos 13.5.2 Screen Recording 2023-09-19 at 4.07.38 PM.mov

I'm a recovering font addict myself. I switched to using Typeface recently and did a deep purge of my collection to weed out the old Postscript fonts that are being phased out. I'm happy with the app. It has a lightweight feel to it, but doesn't skimp on features. And it seems to have regular updates and improvements.

If I understand the ask, the Crescent tool could work in this way Not suggesting an arc tool wouldn't be useful and welcome, just trying to solve with the current tools. Screen Recording 2023-08-21 at 10.19.15 AM.mov

Ooh, I forgot about the reflection in the water. Good catch @thomaso

I'm always a fan of using an image as it's own Mask if possible. Here's my rough take… • Dupe the top layer and Rasterize • Apply various filters to get a high contrast Black and White proto-mask (used Exposure and Black & White and merged as I went) • Clean up • Invert • Clean up again (you could spend a lot of time cleaning and retouching depending on how precise you need the Mask to be) • Rasterize to Mask and nest into top layer Screen Recording 2023-08-18 at 1.47.17 PM.mov

Thanks for the update @Dan C