What is the default brush please?

[William Overington]

Earlier this evening I produced a drawing using Affinity Designer.

As it happens, the reason that I was doing this was because I was trying to try out producing an image, basically as a concept test, using the palette made avaiable in the following thread, so my focus was on installing the palette and producing something using colours from the palette.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/159573-free-goodies-vizier-amenemopes-palette/

So i selected the bruah tool in the toolbox, chose the blue from the palette, and just drew, just using the default brush.

Aferwards I checked and found that the width is 3.8 pt, which I preume is 3.8 points.

As I am using 300 dots per inch and working in pixels I am not sure how many pixels there are in a point in this picture.

But I cannot find what is the default brush that I am using. Is it a regular brush or is it a defailt built-in brush please?

William

 

[walt.farrell]

19 minutes ago, William Overington said:

As I am using 300 dots per inch and working in pixels I am not sure how many pixels there are in a point in this picture.

There are 72 points per inch, by definition. 

There's an Affinity Preference whether to show lines in points or in the document units, which can save you the need to do the arithmetic if your document is sized in pixels.

25 minutes ago, William Overington said:

But I cannot find what is the default brush that I am using. Is it a regular brush or is it a defailt built-in brush please?

You should always choose a specific brush, in my opinion. The "default" might be the last one you used in the current application session. I'm not sure there's a guaranteed starting brush in a new session if you don't pick one.