janlaidlaw Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 I have switched over to Affinity Photo from Photoshop for making YouTube Thumbnails. I have a specific style for my fonts and I have managed to recreate most of it, but there is no italics option for the Impact font. I really need the fonts to look the same as they always have looked, so can you suggest any easy workarounds for this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 Welcome to the forum @janlaidlaw Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy05 Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 The font Impact from URW doesn't have any native italic style. However, there are versions with more variants available. Though, they are not for free (only for personal use—using them on YouTube might not be covered by the license, this needs to be checked first). As an alternative, shearing the text might work. As that's what some apps do in order to "fake" italics to a font which doesn't have any. I'd try that only if I couldn't find any better solution, tho. As a true italic font style usually has a ton more edits rather than just shearing the normal font style. Quote »A designer's job is to improve the general quality of life. In fact, it's the only reason for our existence.«Paul Rand (1914-1996) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janlaidlaw Posted April 8, 2021 Author Share Posted April 8, 2021 3 minutes ago, Andy05 said: The font Impact from URW doesn't have any native italic style. However, there are versions with more variants available. Though, they are not for free (only for personal use—using them on YouTube might not be covered by the license, this needs to be checked first). As an alternative, shearing the text might work. As that's what some apps do in order to "fake" italics to a font which doesn't have any. I'd try that only if I couldn't find any better solution, tho. As a true italic font style usually has a ton more edits rather than just shearing the normal font style. Thank you. I checked the link but I don't see any prices, just a "download now" button. I definitely don't want any licensing problems. But I do need an italic version if it isn't too costly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy05 Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 There's a link within the wall of text, leading to licensing. But interestingly, it's leading to myfonts (subbrand/service of Monotype), licensing the original Monotype font, but (!) without offering any of the italic versions over there. Which might mean, there is no true italic style for it and the font they offer for download is just a (crappy) sheared version of the original font. Although they mock-up italic styles at myfonts for the URW version. Really weird. Quote »A designer's job is to improve the general quality of life. In fact, it's the only reason for our existence.«Paul Rand (1914-1996) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 There is an Impact Wide Italic version https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/geoffreylee/impact-wide/ but it is only slightly Italic and is about a 3rd again as wide as the regular impact. You could try finding a font that is as near as damn it to Impact but with Italic variants, else start learning to make your own fonts. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy05 Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 5 minutes ago, firstdefence said: There is an Impact Wide Italic version https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/geoffreylee/impact-wide/ but it is only slightly Italic [...] Yet, it's a true italic version, not just sheared. Check i. e. the "a", a completely different letter. That's what I meant when I said, there's a ton more edits to a font making an italic style rather than just shearing it. firstdefence 1 Quote »A designer's job is to improve the general quality of life. In fact, it's the only reason for our existence.«Paul Rand (1914-1996) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janlaidlaw Posted April 8, 2021 Author Share Posted April 8, 2021 2 minutes ago, Andy05 said: There's a link within the wall of text, leading to licensing. But interestingly, it's leading to myfonts (subbrand/service of Monotype), licensing the original Monotype font, but (!) without offering any of the italic versions over there. Which might mean, there is no true italic style for it and the font they offer for download is just a (crappy) sheared version of the original font. Although they mock-up italic styles at myfonts for the URW version. Really weird. The photoshop italic looks fine. Impact is a font I've used for years and it came with my version of Photoshop, I don't know how Photoshop creates italics but it served my purposes. I'll keep using Photoshop until I figure something out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janlaidlaw Posted April 8, 2021 Author Share Posted April 8, 2021 I just had a look again and there is a box that was checked in Photoshop called "Faux Italic". Is there any equivalent in Affinity Photo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 22 minutes ago, janlaidlaw said: Is there any equivalent in Affinity Photo? No, there is no equivalent except for the Shear function in the Character panel. You can mimick the Faux effect from PS with a Shear of 10°. Attached an image where I did this. Top from PS and below the sheared text. Of course you can make text style with this shear value for later re-use. sfriedberg 1 Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janlaidlaw Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 20 hours ago, Joachim_L said: No, there is no equivalent except for the Shear function in the Character panel. You can mimick the Faux effect from PS with a Shear of 10°. Attached an image where I did this. Top from PS and below the sheared text. Of course you can make text style with this shear value for later re-use. Okay, thank you, I will try this. Joachim_L 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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