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Hi, extreme Affinity newbie here! I just downloaded the free trial due to wanting to migrate from Inkscape. I've heard Designer is supposed to be much better than Inkscape when it comes to handling text, but I'm immediately running into a snag.

I want to add a thick stroke to some text. But I've found that no matter what typeface I use or what settings I play with, the result is... bad. The tittles on 'i' and 'j,' as well as characters like periods, cause the stroke to detach from the text and fly off into oblivion. Also, any character with a counter is left with an ugly gap in the center, like with the letters 'a' and 'o.'

I've attached a few examples of what I mean. I'm confident this is probably a PEBCAK error due to me only having downloaded it literally a few hours ago, but I also find it odd that I'm meeting resistance with what is normally such a basic function in other programs. Any help is appreciated! (And I'm using MacOS, if that matters.)

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@Indigo209 Welcome to the forum.

Layer FX will be better for this. First, select your text and then click the "FX" icon at the bottom of the Layers Panel. Select the "Outline" option, then adjust the outline color, width, opacity, alignment, etc, to your liking.

You can use the Strokes panel for 'moderate' width text strokes, but I think FX ought to give you what you are looking for. 

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2024 MacBook Pro M4 Max, 48GB, 1TB SSD, Sequoia OS, Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher v1 & v2, Adobe CS6 Extended, LightRoom v6, Blender, InkScape, Dell 30" Monitor, Canon PRO-100 Printer, i1 Spectrophotometer, i1Publish, Wacom Intuos 4 PTK-640 graphics tablet

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