How do I buy and Add new Fonts to Designer?

[cmarshall]

I have to add some text in Affinity Designer using a font that has not come included with the app. Where and how do I buy fonts that are compatible with Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo? And how do I instal them?

[Xenol]

You don't need to install fonts into affinity. If you install them onto your system, they'll be available in affinity. Buy the font you want, and you should get a .ttf file. Double click on this file and you'll be given the option to install onto the system. Do this, and then you should have the font.  Test it out some of these free fonts: http://www.1001freefonts.com

[MEB]

Hi cmarshall,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Affinity Designer/Photo don't include any fonts. You can use whatever fonts you have installed on your computer with Affinity apps. You can get them free from sites like Font Squirrel, Google Fonts, or Fontfabric (not all are free here), or buy them (commercial fonts) from sites like MyFonts, FontShop, Linotype etc.

To install them you can use Font Book app that comes with your Mac (instructions here) or use a third-party font manager like FontExplorer or Extensis Suitcase Fusion.

[Oval]

Lynotype

Wasn’t it Lyontype or Liontype?  ;)

[paolo.limoncelli]

Wasn’t it Lyontype or Liontype?  ;)

 

Roar

[MEB]

Nope. Linotipo!

[Bri-Toon]

As MEB said, once you install a new font, it will be installed in all programs automatically. Are you using Windows or Mac? For Windows, here is a fairly short video on how to do it. Link Also, you do not always have to buy fonts depending on their location. It looks like Linotipe is free here for example.

[manroe]

..and what about bullet or any other glyph ??

[Alfred]

As MEB said, once you install a new font, it will be installed in all programs automatically. Are you using Windows or Mac? For Windows, here is a fairly short video on how to do it. Link Also, you do not always have to buy fonts depending on their location. It looks like Linotipe is free here for example.

 

As MEB indicated, Linotype is a font vendor. Palatino Linotype is a commercial typeface.

 

Please be careful with 'free' font sites. Apart from the questionable legality of obtaining fonts from these sites, there is always a danger of picking up malware along with your free download.

 

..and what about bullet or any other glyph ??

 

It isn't as easy as it should be to insert bullets or other special characters in Affinity Designer, but you can copy them (from Character Map on Windows, or the Character Viewer on a Mac) and then paste them at the text cursor.

[Bri-Toon]

Please be careful with 'free' font sites. Apart from the questionable legality of obtaining fonts from these sites, there is always a danger of picking up malware along with your free download.

 

That's a good point. That's actually something I should be more careful of.

[Fixx]

• Bullet is option(alt)-q in mac kbd •

ttf is kinda oldish format, nowadays otf is better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType

[R C-R]

On my U.S. English Mac keyboard the bullet character • (Unicode U+2022) is entered by typing option-8. Typing option-q produces œ (Unicode U+0153), the lower case oe ligature.

 

Typing option-shift-8 produces ° (Unicode U+00B0), the degree sign. The bullet & degree symbols are similar to the asterisk, on U.S. keyboards the shifted symbol printed on the 8 key, making this easy to remember. On other language keyboards the keyboard mapping may be somewhat different.

[anon1]

As MEB indicated, Linotype is a font vendor. Palatino Linotype is a commercial typeface.

 

Please be careful with 'free' font sites. Apart from the questionable legality of obtaining fonts from these sites, there is always a danger of picking up malware along with your free download.

 

 

It isn't as easy as it should be to insert bullets or other special characters in Affinity Designer, but you can copy them (from Character Map on Windows, or the Character Viewer on a Mac) and then paste them at the text cursor.

 

"malware"

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3256378?tstart=0

 

I´ve not seen any font related maleware exploit in the past three years, especially not on recent OS X / macOS versions

Edited October 1, 2016 by MBd

[R C-R]

I´ve not seen any font related maleware exploit in the past three years, especially not on recent OS X / macOS versions

I did not realize this stuff was gender-specific ....

[Oval]

"maleware"

 

font related maleware

 

If you are a woman or your OS is set to “f” you will turn into a man if you don’t delete the font. Or vice versa?  ;)