An equivalent to AI Pencil Settings for fast type remixing?

[CoEl]

You may have seen this video doing the rounds, in which James Barnard Learns a Thing:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CiMy3Bcj5QO/

He later added clarity to this, since it won't happen unless you adjust some key settings first. These are specifically for the Pencil tool:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CiZViwcjls5/

Of course, Designer has Pencil settings of a sort, but not these.

Does anybody know how I'd do this in Designer without Convert To Curves and Node tool, or Pen/Pencil tool and merging shapes?

Thanks!

[NathanC]

Hi @CoEl,

As far as I'm aware there isn't a way to automatically merge the curves by re-drawing over existing nodes/curves with the pencil tool, it looks like this/ a similar feature has been requested below. 

 

[CoEl]

Oh. That's a shame. I hope they add it one day. Thanks for your reply.

It seems that the reason it had flummoxed so many AI veterans is that the facility has been in there pretty much forever, so I suppose there must be a technical/patent reason why Affinity couldn't do it in Designer.