Designer: Angled/Calligraphic Brush?

[GeirSol]

Me too

[Amvjb]

If developers provide the facility to set the angle at the ends of the stroke line or Pencil tool line ends, the work of the calligraphy tool will be done. The developers should at least provide this simple option.

[Artcraft]

On 11/5/2022 at 6:03 PM, YoBa said:

you have to have this. 
this is really bad, I switched to Affinity after many years of illustrator and I cant believe this feature doesnt exist. this is an essential feature for how I create logo type.

is this going to happen or are we doomed to Adobe?

Yes, there will never be a replacement for Illustrator. Affinty programs are rather toys, not suitable for work, too many bugs, too many missing essential features, not even tracing. (even inkscape has it and it's free)

[Chumo]

Does anyone know if this has been implemented on Affinity Designer 2.0? Haven't upgraded yet but this would convince me immediately to do so. 

[bluearch]

They do however have calligraphy brushes in pixel mode, which is a good start.

Does anyone know how we can edit the actual nib shape, rather than just change what the nib does?

[walt.farrell]

8 hours ago, bluearch said:

Does anyone know how we can edit the actual nib shape, rather than just change what the nib does?

I think you might have to create a new brush, using a new image as the source. Or, at a minimum, edit the brush, add a new image, and possibly remove the old one.

[Guenterm]

Hello,

im a newbie in designer, but maybe I've found a possibilty for calligraphy brush.

i started with creating a new round brush and applied these settings first (1-round brush.png)

Then I assigned the distance setting to 1% (2-round brush.png)

for my first test it works, and I have to check the other settings

best regards

Guenter

 

 

[gritnz]

@ Guenterm yes this would be great if it was ‘Vector’ but is not vector it is ‘Pixel’

The ‘Affinity’ you have hand written above with a ‘Pixel’ pen would have taken you 20-30 second

Now I challenge you to replicate it exactly in affinity designer as a ‘Vector’ to get the genuine hand drawn look could take you hours. In Adobe Illustrator it takes seconds to do.

Be careful how you spend your time learning if you want to do efficient vector calligraphy then at the present time 'Affinity Designer' ranks on the bottom of the list from all the vector graphic suites including the “free” options.

Don’t get me wrong I love 'Affinity Suite' for everything else I really like the work flow of both personas in one place.  

[gritnz]

Affinity -Please- it has been ‘Nine Years’

That’s right 9 years ago that this has been requested.

For me it is the ‘Elephant in the Room’ for Affinity.

I have spent 1000’s of hours designing art work this is crippling me. I cannot do the artwork in pixel it needs to be vector.

At the very least can you create a ‘Blob’ brush with calligraphy pen options. I believe this would be a more efficient use of computing power as it would auto expand and join together resulting in less individual curve layers. 

The crazy part is calligraphy is only about 5% of my design work yet I use the calligraphy pen for 95% of all my design work even my finished work, 5% is adjusting vector points - I have found this to be super-fast time efficient work flow.

10 times faster than the current affinity designer vector workflow.

The difference is like wearing gloves and using crayons to do my line artwork in affinity.

Yes! I have spent 100's of hours in affinity trying to replicate the work flow and No! it can’t be done 'efficiently' in Affinity’s current state 2.1

Again, Affinity is awesome in every other way.

Help me kick from my dependence on the adobe calligraphy brush and blob brush. 

Then I can kick 'Adobe' to the curb. 

[Jarad O]

Please for the love of your poor customers who have been waiting for 9 years for this feature!

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, Jarad O said:

Please for the love of your poor customers who have been waiting for 9 years for this feature!

Hi, Jarad & welcome to the forums.

Just FYI, the best place for your comment is in the Feedback & Suggestions forum -- that's where the developers look, not here in the Questions forum.

[BBkuro]

2024 here?!?

Any chance we can get rotate calligraphy brushes soon?

[RichTeaBiscuit]

I agree totally. Essential feature.

[Raydox]

is this not implemented yet?

 

jeez its only when you start actually working with designer that you realise that despite all the clunkyness and criminal sub its impossible to replace illustrator.

[walt.farrell]

41 minutes ago, Raydox said:

Is this not implemented yet?

Only as a raster brush in the Pixel Persona. (Of course, even in the Designer Persona the vector brushes aren't true vector.)