gregj Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 I followed the instructions in the stylistic set tutorial and it's not working. See this short video: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted September 25, 2020 Staff Share Posted September 25, 2020 Hi @gregj, That's really interesting. You don't seem to be having the right sets. What Windows version are you running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregj Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 Yeah, I thought so too. I'm using Windows 10 home updated in 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted September 25, 2020 Staff Share Posted September 25, 2020 Sorry. did not realise you had letter T selected. There are only 2 styles for letter "t" available. So you won't see much change when switching between the 6 sets. If you follow the tutorial with letter "A", you will see it changes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janeH Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 Hi - I too am having a problem. I only have 3 stylistic sets, I watched the affinity typography video "Alice" typed in Alice and still only have 3 sets not the whole list it showed and can hardly do anything. I have tried different letters, what am I doing wrong? or not doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 2 minutes ago, janeH said: Hi - I too am having a problem. I only have 3 stylistic sets, I watched the affinity typography video "Alice" typed in Alice and still only have 3 sets not the whole list it showed and can hardly do anything. I have tried different letters, what am I doing wrong? or not doing? Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Jane. Which font are you using? What characters have you typed? What characters have you selected? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janeH Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 Hi Alfred Thanks for responding. I have typed the word "Alice" as after watching the affinity tutorial video thought I would play with the typography as was shown. Unfortunately with no joy whatsoever. I have gone through all my fonts and still only get 3 stylistic styles. I have downloaded opentype fonts and gone through all of them and again only the same 3 stylistic sets No idea what I am doing wrong - any ideas? Thanks, Jane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 6 minutes ago, janeH said: I have typed the word "Alice" as after watching the affinity tutorial video Which tutorial video? A pointer to it would help. How far into the video was it shown? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 Characters: Advanced Typography @janeH What font(s) are you testing. Not all fonts have stylistic sets. The font in the tutorial is Gabriola which does have stylistic sets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 Gabriola is not a good choice to demonstrate stylistic sets. Too much going on. And I am not sure exactly what APub is displaying (some appears to be wrong and/or misleading). For example: ss04, ss05, ss06, and-ss07 all have a lot of contextual substitutions.APub is displaying the stylistic sets as available on characters which are not in the correct context. So applying the displayed stylistic set does nothing. That is confusing to users. There are much better font choices to use to demonstrate stylistic sets.with simple replacements which: Will not be displayed wrong by APub Will not confuse users. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 3 minutes ago, LibreTraining said: Gabriola is not a good choice to demonstrate stylistic sets. Too much going on. In particular, there are seemingly a lot of funny interactions if you choose multiple stylistic sets, so you never quite know what you’re going to get until you try it! And although Gabriola is supplied as standard with recent versions of Windows, most Mac users won’t have it. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 14 minutes ago, Alfred said: In particular, there are seemingly a lot of funny interactions if you choose multiple stylistic sets, so you never quite know what you’re going to get until you try it! I have been looking at it some more by selecting various characters and in almost every case the options presented are wrong. @Gabe That tutorial should be replaced. Not good to demonstrate a feature in a way that is not working properly. Every new user who views that video is going be frustrated and confused. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janeH Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Hi Alfred Sorry for the delay. I have taken some screenshots to see if that helps you to help me solve the problem Notice in my text drop down of typography nothing is in it. I could not get a screenshot of the only 3 stylistic sets I have as it collapsed as I tried to take a screenshot. Many thanks, Jane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Arial doesn’t have the features you’re looking for. Try some of these: https://www.fontspace.com/category/stylistic You may find that they only offer ‘Stylistic Alternates’, not ‘Stylistic Sets’, but at least that should give you something to play with! Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janeH Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Hi Alfred Thanks for you continuing to try & help, I just typed with arial so I could get the typography to drop down. Thanks for the link will have a look and then start playing. Many thanks, Jane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 @janeH Arial does have some stylistic sets to test with. I looked at them yesterday when testing this. Since they are simple replacements they work correctly. One stylistic set replicates the unicase OpenType feature. Some of the others do standard stuff like alternate forms of a, g, y, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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