Stroke Start and End - Custom colour option

[TheLunaPark]

I think it would be nice and quite useful to have the option to set the Start and/or End of a stroke to have a different colour to the actual stroke.

For example, you could have a black line stroke with a green circle at the Start and End to illustrate the start and finish of something, all done with just one stroke rather than putting in the circles manually.

Thanks and keep up the great work!

[loukash]

Via Designer (persona), you actually can:
Add more strokes with different endings via Appearance panel:

[Old Bruce]

15 hours ago, TheLunaPark said:

I think it would be nice and quite useful to have the option to set the Start and/or End of a stroke to have a different colour to the actual stroke.

If you use the Node tool you can see the end node by the red colour plus you can have the little red line to show the orientation.

[loukash]

To bring the multicolor endings to front, the trick is to make the top strokes virtually invisible by giving them an "impossible" width of 0.0001 pt or so. Correspondingly though, e.g. the yellow start/end must be enlarged by whopping 10000000 % in this example:

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

you can see the end node by the red colour

Um… that's about something completely different.  

[NotMyFault]

2 hours ago, loukash said:

To bring the multicolor endings to front, the trick is to make the top strokes virtually invisible by giving them an "impossible" width of 0.0001 pt or so. Correspondingly though, e.g. the yellow start/end must be enlarged by whopping 10000000 % in this example

 Impressive workflow stunt 👍🏼

But fiddling with so many settings … maybe it is faster to use a separate shape per node

[loukash]

Just now, NotMyFault said:

maybe it is faster to use a separate shape per node

Um… styles…?

[NotMyFault]

I just tried to create the smallest possible curve and add a stroke, and of course run immediately into trouble (iPad)

• ellipse shape with 1px radius and 4px stroke (outside) acts erratic. 
• one node shapes are impossible to use (no stroke visible)
• When you use node tool to move 2nd node over first, they get combined and vanish from rendering

so much fun, my intuition is 100% incompatible with Affinity UI

[NotMyFault]

20 minutes ago, loukash said:

Um… styles…?

First you must have one

[loukash]

2 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

I just tried to create the smallest possible curve and add a stroke

What does it have to do with this topic?

2 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

First you must have one

Now that I've tested how to proceed, from scratch it takes … a minute or two.

[NotMyFault]

23 minutes ago, loukash said:

What does it have to do with this topic?

To test an alternative approach to create what the OP asked for. Got distracted by the issues I posted. It’s late, good night for today 💤 

1 hour ago, NotMyFault said:

Impressive workflow stunt 👍🏼

But fiddling with so many settings … maybe it is faster to use a separate shape per node

[TheLunaPark]

Thanks everyone for the ideas and workarounds. I think for now it is indeed probably easier to simply create separate shapes but perhaps a built-in dedicated feature will come in the future.