Sam S - TO Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 I just downloaded and installed Affinity Designer 2, with the hope that color fonts will work. I downloaded this font and installed it - https://www.creativefabrica.com/product/patriotic-11/. However, we I set the text to this font in Affinity Designer 2, It is showing as monochrome. Any idea why? Is there any workaround? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Color fonts are not yet supported. Alfred and Sam S - TO 2 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 1 hour ago, firstdefence said: Color fonts are not yet supported. Until they are, it seems that the best we can do is export to SVG, view the result in a web browser (or any other app that displays the text correctly) and take a screenshot. Sam S - TO and lacerto 2 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Obsolete. Alfred and Sam S - TO 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam S - TO Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 @Alfred Thanks. I did what you suggested, but seems like it's not working when I export SVG and view in Web Browser. It's still monochrome. Wondering if there are any settings for the SVG export? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 7 minutes ago, Sam S - TO said: @Alfred Thanks. I did what you suggested, but seems like it's not working when I export SVG and view in Web Browser. It's still monochrome. I don’t have that font, so I can’t test it here, but my guess is that it’s not an SVG font. I have several colour fonts that I can use as described, but I also have one or two that remain stubbornly monochrome. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam S - TO Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 @Alfred I just checked one of the fonts I used - https://www.creativefabrica.com/product/patriotic-11/. It says " This product is a color font (Opentype-SVG)" Please could you give me an example of a color font that you got working via the SVG export and open via browser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 1 minute ago, Sam S - TO said: Please could you give me an example of a color font that you got working via the SVG export and open via browser. Playbox, the font shown in the screenshots that I posted earlier, is one of several free fonts that I have here. Ponche, one of the colour fonts that doesn’t work for me via SVG export, is described on the MyFonts website as being in SVG-TTF format, so it would seem that there’s more to this than meets the eye. https://www.myfonts.com/collections/ponche-font-sudtipos#aboutThisFont Sam S - TO 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 1 hour ago, Sam S - TO said: @Alfred I just checked one of the fonts I used - https://www.creativefabrica.com/product/patriotic-11/. It says " This product is a color font (Opentype-SVG)" Please could you give me an example of a color font that you got working via the SVG export and open via browser. You can quite easily make a flag font effect in Photo or Designer. USA Flag Font.afdesign Alfred 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 You may be able to convert the font from SVG to COLR (which works in Affinity). Depends on the SVGs in the font. Have to see the font. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam S - TO Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 @Alfred Thanks for your help so far. Still no luck. I downloaded Playbox, installed it on Windows. I used the font in Affinity Designer --> Monochrome, then downloaded the SVG or WEBP. Opening the files in any web browser, and still I see Monochrome Is there something I am missing? Is there some sort of settings during export? AD 2: Browser: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam S - TO Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 @firstdefence Complete newbie and don't know how to do it. Thanks for the file. I will give it a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam S - TO Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 (edited) @kenmcd Complete newbie. Don't know how to convert. The font files are attached. I got it from here - https://www.creativefabrica.com/product/patriotic-11/ Thanks. Edited February 27 by Sam S - TO removing commercial product Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 2 hours ago, Sam S - TO said: Is there something I am missing? It’s probably something I’m missing! It works for me in Firefox, but I was sure I had it working in another browser, too. P.S. I suggest that you remove the zip attachment from your post. Commercial products really shouldn’t be shared on a public forum. Sam S - TO 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 We experimented with using colour fonts with Affinity Designer some time ago. An Affinity Designer design was prepared in Affinity Designer, the colour font appeared in Monochrome. One then exported an SVG file from Affinity Designer with the option to convert text to cures turned off. Thus the Unicode characters are listed in the SVG file, and when the SVG file was displayed using the Microsoft Edge browser, the characters were displayed in colour as the Microsoft Edge browser did the displaying. Can anyone find the original thread about getting a colour image by this technique please? However, that was then and this is now and I saw something recently that made me wonder if it will still work. https://lists.aau.at/pipermail/mpeg-otspec/2024-February/003285.html But I might have got it wrong. I need to remember that the term SVG in the context of this thread might be referring to two different things. One is an SVG file exported from Affinity Designer. The other is that some fonts internally use SVG to implement the glyph designs within the font. I hope this helps. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 38 minutes ago, Alfred said: It works for me in Firefox, but I was sure I had it working in another browser, too. 15 minutes ago, William Overington said: when the SVG file was displayed using the Microsoft Edge browser, the characters were displayed in colour I tried it in both Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer earlier today, and it appeared in monochrome in both. I then tried it in Opera, but that also failed. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 17 minutes ago, William Overington said: I need to remember that the term SVG in the context of this thread might be referring to two different things. One is an SVG file exported from Affinity Designer. The other is that some fonts internally use SVG to implement the glyph designs within the font. 10 hours ago, Alfred said: Ponche, one of the colour fonts that doesn’t work for me via SVG export, is described on the MyFonts website as being in SVG-TTF format Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Here are links to threads produced a few years ago. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/128285-colour-fonts-and-affinity-products/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/144236-some-language-independent-glyphs-for-museum-shops/ William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 2 hours ago, Sam S - TO said: @kenmcd Complete newbie. Don't know how to convert. The font files are attached. I got it from here - https://www.creativefabrica.com/product/patriotic-11/ Thanks. Patriotic-71381259 (1).zip 638.18 kB · 2 downloads Wow. This may actually be convertible to COLR. Most OpenType-SVG fonts just contain images (which cannot be converted), but this appears to have vectors - so it may be possible. We'll see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Obsolete. Sam S - TO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam S - TO Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 Thanks. I will try this out. But yet another software? - VectorStyler! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Conversion to COLR seems to be working... sort of... This is Export to PDF from APub and then converted to an image. I got some errors on the conversion, and that seems to be related to some of the details (the lines etc.). Gotta go now - will check it out tomorrow. Note: bonus side effect is all the SVGs have been dumped to a folder. Alfred and Sam S - TO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Obsolete. Alfred and Sam S - TO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 If exporting to SVG and PDF displays the font as it should why can't Affinity simply activate this in house, seems bonkers to have a colorfont font that doesn't display as it is and is actually masked out by a text fill, surely it's not that big a leap to get these fonts displayed au naturel instead of hoop jumping yet again. Sam S - TO 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 I asked at the OpenType mailing list and Mr Peter Constable, a top expert in these matters, kindly answered. https://lists.aau.at/pipermail/mpeg-otspec/2024-February/003303.html William Sam S - TO 1 Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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