Affinity apps ask for a specific font I've never heard of.

[MarkG]

All of my Affinity apps have begun giving this message at launch: 

"Affinity [program name] needs the font named Cold Blood."

Problem is, I've never heard of the font. Is this some kind of interface font that should have been installed on my system?

I tell it to ignore the message and the program works normally, as far as I can tell. I can't turn anything up about this in a forum search or a general web search.

What's going on here?

Using fresh installs of 1.9 on a Mac with with OS 10.14.6

[carl123]

11 hours ago, MarkG said:

All of my Affinity apps have begun giving this message at launch: 

"Affinity [program name] needs the font named Cold Blood."

Never heard of that before

Can you upload a screenshot showing that message?

[v_kyr]

That font is probably named after a used poster of "In Cold Blood", which is a 1967 movie based on the book of the same name by Truman Capote. The font used for that is "Didoni" a commercial one.

[MarkG]

Here you go.

 

I think this is a message from my font manager, FontExplorer X Pro, but I can't figure out why all my Affinity products request it on launch...

[walt.farrell]

26 minutes ago, MarkG said:

but I can't figure out why all my Affinity products request it on launch...

Do you have them configured to re-Open files that were open when you closed the application?

[Alfred]

7 hours ago, v_kyr said:

That font is probably named after a used poster of "In Cold Blood", which is a 1967 movie based on the book of the same name by Truman Capote. The font used for that is "Didoni" a commercial one.

According to ‘Fonts In Use’ the first edition of the book used Pistilli Roman in the jacket design.

[v_kyr]

9 minutes ago, Alfred said:

According to ‘Fonts In Use’ the first edition of the book used Pistilli Roman in the jacket design.

Read again ("...named after a used poster of "In Cold Blood", which is a 1967 movie based on the book...") and see the above link. I referenced the movie poster and not the initial older book.

[Alfred]

2 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Read again ("...named after a used poster of "In Cold Blood", which is a 1967 movie based on the book...") and see the above link. I referenced the movie poster and not the initial older book.

Noted! Didoni is also used for a later edition of the book.

[MarkG]

45 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Do you have them configured to re-Open files that were open when you closed the application?

No. What's more, I've never owned or used a font of this name. I wondered if it was used in one of the samples or tutorials offered in the start up panel.

The current copies of the Affinity suite are fresh copies I downloaded the other day when I was having that "App Store won't update" problem. I deleted my copies in an attempt to get App Store to reinstall them. The same messages pop up with the fresh copies, too.

Oddly, when I ignore the missing font warning, the program opens without complaint. There are no open documents when it does. Also, oddly, the same message appears for all three Affinity programs.

I can certainly live with it; it was just wondering if anyone else has experience this problem.

[v_kyr]

Very strange! - However I doubt it's possibly due to this here ... 😄

• Affinity just murdered Photoshop in cold blood

[MarkG]

At the very least, Adobe should be glancing nervously over its shoulder...

[firstdefence]

9 hours ago, v_kyr said:

That font is probably named after a used poster of "In Cold Blood", which is a 1967 movie based on the book of the same name by Truman Capote. The font used for that is "Didoni" a commercial one.

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