How to retain the source font name when pasting text into Affinity Publisher or Designer

[Zabeen]

Hey guys! 

 

I need some help regarding text/font being pasted into Affinity Publisher: last week, I was trying to search for the fonts used by a certain website. By chance, I figured out that when I copy the text from the website and paste it directly to Affinity publisher (without a text frame and also direct paste), the original font name would show up in the font box with a ? next to it. It was such cool hack I figured out to find the font names from any website, without having to use other font search websites or software.

When I tried to do the same today, the paste keeps appearing in either the default font (Arial) when pasting to a new artboard, OR it pastes in a font that is currently being used in an existing artboard. 

I tried "paste without format", it didn't work. 

I haven't change ANY setting in my user interface.

* I did update to the latest Sonoma yesterday

 

Any ideas how I can get this feature back? it is just SO useful!

Edited September 1 by Zabeen

[Hangman]

Hi @Zabeen and welcome to the forums,

That approach won't work since the website's text is just plain HTML styled using CSS...

If you want to find out the font used on the website, assuming the text is actual text and not a graphic, you can use the browser's inspector to select the text. You'll then the text's CSS properties telling you the font family used for the text.

[kenmcd]

2 hours ago, Zabeen said:

I was trying to search for the fonts used by a certain website.

I use a browser extension called Font Finder.
You just select the text, right-click, select Font Finder, and Analyze Selection.

Shows you the font(s) specified, the actual font used, if the font used is the web font or your locally installed version, etc.

For example, I selected the "Font Finder" text above and got this:

 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, kenmcd said:

For example, I selected the "Font Finder" text above and got this:

How did you get that display?

I've just nstalled Font Finder (thanks, btw) and what I see is:

[kenmcd]

57 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

How did you get that display?

I've just nstalled Font Finder (thanks, btw) and what I see is:

That is a bit odd.
I have this extension in both Firefox and Vivaldi (chromium).
As I mentioned above...
You just select the text, right-click, select Font Finder, and Analyze Selection.

Here it is being used on your post above:

 

Ahh... I think I know what happened.
Make sure you have "Font Finder (revived)" (which is updated)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/font-inspect/

 

[Hangman]

FWIW, on Chrome with the Inspector selected, simply hovering over text provides instant feedback without any plug-ins but I'll check out FF for FF...