William Overington

You’re welcome 
 

Welcome to the forum @Ben Lime
Try this...

I think you will need to make a Character style...

That's done the trick, thank you! I didn't have the option for final forms so I updated the app and there it was! Gotta remember to keep it up to date in future.
Thanks so much for the help @firstdefence !

I noticed that the kerning of the letter pairs ba, be, bi, etc. needs some attention!
The ‘gold’ colour looks just as green as ever.

No, I didn’t notice, but all has become clear now! Thanks for the link.

I have now loaded the file into Microsoft Paint and used the colour picker and it displays as a dark yellow.

William
 

Alas, Affinity products do not support colour fonts.
However, there is a workaround that is useful in some circumstances.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/128285-colour-fonts-and-affinity-products/
William
 

Does the digital archive of the British Library in your link accept PDF for upload? – Their website for digital archive ("Publisher Submission Portal", linked from here) is currently down, it shows a maintenance message. The screen in their introduction video seems to offer "EBook" and "EJournal" only, which might be different file formats, possibly not suitable for content with spot colors. Do you have a link to detailed file descriptions for their upload? – Or do you want them to pick up a PDF from your website with their yearly, automatic scanning & collecting crawling procedure?


 

So you will use both "types of gold": as Pantone (in a deposit data file) + as simulation (in a printed sample greeting card)?
I'd assume the glossy look is more important to simulate gold than the exact color hue (green, red). Try a linear gradient for the ambient light.
To simulate a Pantone Metal ink on a flat surface I would not add a specular light. Note in @firstdefence's photo above the specular light occurs where the paper is curved. Pantone metal ink seems to be rather satin than glossy. Compare below ambient (satin) and specular (bit more glossy).

I am not sure what "job" you mean, but if it is to provide some sort of legal protection of your design, I can only repeat that you should contact the library or a legal professional about that.

Hi All,
I'm trying to learn Affinity Publisher via video tutorials.
The challenge is that all the tutorial videos I've viewed online on YouTube on my laptop the features (words) are too tiny to see.
So, you can't see the features you're supposed to be clicking on or selecting.
I can hold down the Ctrl key and enlarge the screen but it doesn't enlarge the words on screen in the tutorial.
Has anyone watched a YT tutorial where the features are easily readable?
I've uploaded a screenshot of what appears on screen.
Thank you.

I think you need to contact the British Library & find out what they suggest you do, particularly about any design that in physical form cannot be accurately reproduced in electronic form.

I definitely do not. An actual reflective surface reflects light from the environment, so at best a simulation would show what it looked like in just one environment & only when viewed from one angle.

… whereas "one" (any?) can vary in real live showing its gloss (reflectance) more or less or even almost not at all – the simulation, because it is static (does not change with angle etc), must be a specific "one" which literally illustrates the gloss.
 
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Not sure if I understand your goal. If it is to simulate a golden ink or foil as an reflective or glossy surface, you could support such an impression by varying brightness in this golden area, e.g. as gradient. Otherwise, as long the area has a plain, straight color only then there is nothing which will make us see, think or feel "gold". Just because it shows only its hue, saturation and brightness (yellow, brownish, greenish etc). But metal or any reflective surface reacts with the light's / viewer's angle + with colors in its surrounding, the light source included.
Such a simulating gradient can have different complexity. The simpliest is just 2 colors, color X to a brighter tint of X. Such is often used to make a software button or a photo of a screen (e.g. smart phone) appear glossy. A simle gradient in the sake not to disturb the actual button or product details.
The gradient can also have different hues (greenish, reddish) and midpoints of different brightness (white). But it will be a simulation only. That's why in catalogs often mirrors don't look like mirrors – they may have a gradient but lack in a surrounding on their surface.

Some people seem to think it looks green when simulated on a display, but it looks a dirty yellow to me.

I am trying to add an emoji character to a text box in Affinity Publisher, but it is just displayed as an empty rectangular box, or sometimes just as an empty space. I'm using the Apple Color Emoji font, and have tried frame text boxes and artistic text boxes with the same result. Is this simply not possible?

Was this created at quite a small size, William? It seems rather fuzzy for a PNG image.

Interesting article. In all probability Shroudley had Protanopia or Protanomaly...
Protanopia

 
Protanomaly

Your price will most likely be high for a single print. Prices go down as volume goes up. For one card you may pay the same as if you were ordering 50. You do pay a premium for the metallics but there should be plenty of print shops who can do it for you rather simply. There are a few ways these are done digitally. Some printers actually print a metallic coated sheet, it lays white down and then prints on top of the white all the "normal" print and leaves the metallic showing through. Some have another colour station for metallic. Also is the method Alfred mentioned. Ultimately I think your best bet is connecting with local print shops, discuss your needs and find the one that works best for you. These are the people you should be talking to on how to setup your files to get what you want. 
 
a 12 ink printer is going to be a wide format printer and not something that would be used for printing anything in volume. I could see printing 1 and cutting by hand, but any more then that is just not economical. Those printers are generally 54" and up so again you would be paying a premium for a greeting card 1 up on a 54" wide sheet. Of course they could gang with another job, but that would be up to them and if they would charge you less for doing that. I am not sure of all the wide format printers on the market, but my Epson 9900 has 10 inks and none of them are metallic. I have Black, Light Black, Light Light Black, Magenta, Light Magenta, Cyan, Light Cyan, Yellow, Orange, Green. This offers a huge a spectrum that it can hit pushing the image quality far beyond anything a CMYK printer can do, but again at a cost.

"of course", coming from French, where the main usage is a noun for the bed/flow of some water -- river, stream... we've got a lot of words depending of the size and flow of "rivers" -- ("un cours d'eau"). By extention -- the river always going from a point in land to the sea --, it's meaning a path for something moving, a define, definite (?) road > a logical way/end. "Le cours des choses" : the courses of things, aka fate, in some sort.
In French we would use "biensûr", in Occitan "per segur" (obviously, certainly, without doubt). 

Thank you both, to me it's interesting already that you, probably English natives, don't see any issues with this term. With "path" as "course of action" I vaguely can imagine the initial idea as the path which results in only 1 target "of course". Whereas "of cause" to me still feels reasonable in terms of no need for further arguments, no path to go but just "of course" because there is no doubt about the cause of the related thought, or the cause is clear.

I think part of the problem with the Pantone metallic 8363 is, it's an RGB version of Pantone metallic 8363 but in all likelihood the Pantone colour wouldn't be printed like that. RGB and CMYK are approximations of the Pantone colour not the colour the Pantone metallic ink would produce. 

I guess I lack in proper english terms and didn't look it up in a dictionary. The german would be "UV-Lack" and "Heißfolienprägung".
I know your sample in the linked topic also in a version for do-it-yourself at home. In small foil rolls (~5 cm width) and to either apply with an according machine (an electrically heated rubber roll with a handle) or with an iron.
@William Overington, concerning greeting cards & low budget this manual foil option could be the most satisfying for your needs. Though it is manually tricky if you want to apply it to small areas only and not just as stripes. Then the industrial applying method is more suitable. – (click to enlarge:)

Wouldn't a comparison on your screen show a difference, regardless of perfect calibration? Like so, do you see here a difference …?

Inks for/on paper print are always less glossy than for other surfaces (like RAL etc) but can get an additional clear, glossy varnish printed as separate color. Vice versa a satin varnish can reduce the shinyness of a glossy surface.
If you want a mirror effect then not ink printing but foil "printing" (hot stamping) works better. Depending on the foil it is more reflective than ink. Different to ink hot foil print can't get rasterized and so it doesn't do halftone or gradients.