How to find out which brush I used?

[andmocychmen]

I'm looking at a drawing I made on affinity designer. I used a brush for stroke. I just can't remember which, but I also cannot see on the screen any information about that brush.

 

 

Help me understand here. What brush is this? Where's the info?

 

[Ron P.]

3 hours ago, andmocychmen said:

What brush is this?

Unless you saved it, using a unique name, we may never know. Once you selected a brush, if you modify it in any way, it is no longer the same brush, it's a new brush. All those brushes are presets, a starting point.

3 hours ago, andmocychmen said:

Where's the info?

If you didn't save the brush, well the info probably is floating around somewhere just below the ozone, where the bovine emissions lurk..😄

[walt.farrell]

On 7/16/2021 at 11:18 PM, andmocychmen said:

I used a brush for stroke. I just can't remember which, but I also cannot see on the screen any information about that brush.

Affinity does not save information about the actual brush you used.

However, for that specific case, where you used a brush to apply a stroke to an object: With the object selected, switch to the Stroke panel. At the bottom of the panel, click Properties. You'll get something like the brush editing dialog:

That will let you see the shape of the brush and some other properties. And you can click Duplicate at the bottom to make a copy of the brush if you need it.

[skmwrp]

This thread is old, but in case anyone still using AD v1 wants to duplicate a lost brush, I found that is it paint with a different brush, and then copy a line previously drawn and paste its style on the new line (Edit | Paste Style), it changes to the lost brush.

Saved my behind, discovering this.