cmarshall Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenol Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 29, 2016 Staff Share Posted September 29, 2016 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. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 Lynotype Wasn’t it Lyontype or Liontype? ;) Fixx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 Wasn’t it Lyontype or Liontype? ;) Roar Bri-Toon 1 Quote The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 29, 2016 Staff Share Posted September 29, 2016 Nope. Linotipo! Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bri-Toon Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 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. Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manroe Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 ..and what about bullet or any other glyph ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 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. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bri-Toon Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 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. Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 • Bullet is option(alt)-q in mac kbd • ttf is kinda oldish format, nowadays otf is better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 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. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 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 and Sonica 2 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 "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? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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