Text Frame Tool won't type normal fonts because brush is applied

[Shemja]

I'm creating a document in Affinity Publisher 2 on a Mac desktop. For the first time ever, when I used the text frame tool to work with fonts, typing standard text, the program applied the last brush I selected in the Designer persona that I had applied to a pen tool line. Now, I cannot get the program to stop using the brush on my fonts, so I can't make a single normal letter.

I'm completely beside myself. Until now, I've only ever seen this tool restrict text to fonts and disallow brushes on them. If I wanted to apply a brush, I used artistic text.

I don't know how to fix this. It doesn't matter if I delete the element and create a new one or restart the program. All I can do is try to revert in history, but then I lose my brush application on my line. If this is normal function, there is no easy way to stop the brush from being used. Not that I can find. If I disable the brush style, it types blank letters.

How do I go back to typing normal text?

 

Edited April 28, 2023 by Shemja
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[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the forums.

It looks like you have chosen to apply a Stroke to your text (see Stroke panel in your screenshot) and, further, that you've selected a textured stroke (last icon on the first line of that panel). Perhaps you need to click the "x" icon on that same line, toward the left just after the word Style.

[Shemja]

Oh my gosh. Simple fix. I'd done that before but didn't realize the line weight was zero, which is why I saw nothing. Thank you!

[thomaso]

18 hours ago, Shemja said:

I don't know how to fix this. It doesn't matter if I delete the element and create a new one or restart the program. All I can do is try to revert in history,

With the text frame selected you always can use the Toolbar button "Revert Defaults" to get rid of recently used style properties and back to the current app defaults. Once it got clicked for such a text frame also a future text frame won't have the unexpected style.