Arrows with a dogleg / bend

[Starbase1]

Hi All,

I do most of my work in Affinity Photo, but this feels like a Designer question. (I have that too).

I'm redoing old Soviet space illustrations, translating as I go. I attach the one I am currently working on in case it helps. I think it would look better if I changed the arrows from straight to something with a bend in, probably with the tail horizontal, to lead to the captions.

Now I found tutorials on curved arrows, but that's not what I'm after here. I want one with a bend in the middle, (or maybe not the actual centre!)

Can affinity handle this? If so, how please?

Thanks,

Nick 

[thomaso]

23 minutes ago, Starbase1 said:

I want one with a bend in the middle, (or maybe not the actual centre!)

Possibly I misunderstand your question – since the answer appears rather obvious: just place the Node Tool on a selected line to curve it wherever you want.

[v_kyr]

You can also easily make your own specific ones!

[BlueLiner]

If in designer, draw a line with the pen too, set the width and end points of the arrow in the stroke dialog. Then with the node tool, just add a node where you want the bend to be. You can then move the head, tail and bend point as desired with the node tool.

 

[Starbase1]

Thanks to all, Blueliner, that is particularly helpful!

 

Nick

[Starbase1]

Thanks to al who helped with this. That whole style is new to me, but I was able to get something I was very happy with, which I attach, in case anyone is interested.

[Alfred]

18 minutes ago, Starbase1 said:

I was able to get something I was very happy with, which I attach, in case anyone is interested

Those arrows look great! The text looks as though a smaller font size has been used in lieu of proper small capital glyphs in the original font size, resulting in the regular capital letters and the ampersand looking bolder than the ‘small caps’ text, but that’s only a minor quibble.

[thomaso]

2 hours ago, Starbase1 said:

That whole style is new to me, but I was able to get something I was very happy with, which I attach, in case anyone is interested.

An idea that always comes to my mind in infographics: it helps to show the way of an arrow if it gets more contrast to the background, e.g. by adding an additional outline. In AD you can simply add another stroke to the arrow style, in AP / APub you can use a layer effect, e.g. Outline: