Fonts appearing differently in other applications

[MsMeowy]

I am using the font Wishes Pro Text.  It has lots of different swashes etc. But for some reason I can’t get the otf font to give me just plain type without the swashes. 

I tried opening the Typography window and clicking through the options but none give me the plain type I want.

The first sample is from Typeface 

The second is what I am getting in Affinity Designer 2.3.0 on my Mac 11.7.10

I’m also attaching the Typography window.

Thank you for your help

Edited December 4, 2023 by MsMeowy
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[walt.farrell]

10 hours ago, MsMeowy said:

I am using the font Wishes Pro Text.

It may be helpful to know the site you downloaded from, and what version of the font you have.

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[DWright]

Can you please check you font list as the the one that I downloaded from DAFONTS has a Wishes Script Caps text font which has the style but no alternatives 

[kenmcd]

On 12/3/2023 at 4:25 PM, MsMeowy said:

But for some reason I can’t get the otf font to give me just plain type without the swashes. 

The Typography panel shows you have Swashes enabled.
Which I assume you have Enabled because it looks less swashy with it On.

This font has some additional Final Forms features (which are On by default in Affinity),
... which do not appear in the Typography panel - so you cannot turn them Off.

In the Positional Alternates section of the Typography panel you can only see
Initial Forms (init) and Final Forms (fina) - (these) are the OpenType feature codes.
And since you can see them, you can turn them Off.
This font has two more "final forms" features - fin2 and fin3 - which you cannot see.
So there is no way to turn them Off.

OpenType specs say these features should be On by default.
But, other text shaping engines default to Off for the Latin script.
Because many Latin-only fonts use these features (not just Arabic & Indic, etc.).
Harfbuzz (LibreOffice, Inkscape), DirectWrite (Windows, Word), Coretext (Apple, Typeface), InDesign shaper, and more - all default to Off for the Unicode Latin script for these OpenType features.

Affinity needs to fix this.
@DWright  Affinity is the only one enabling these by default for the Latin script.
They should be Off by default - or this is just going to keep happening.
Affinity looks broken to users when they come from InDesign or another applications and suddenly all these odd glyphs start appearing.

These should default to Off for Unicode Latin script: fina, fin2, fin3, init, medi
This is at a minimum, there may be a couple others.
And there needs to be a switch for fin2 and fin3 in the Typography Panel like for fina.

@MsMeowy Your only work-around at this point is to use the version from Dafonts or other download sites (which have no OpenType features).
Or hack the font you have.