Greek letters

[glazer]

I posted this before but had no answer. So I shall try again. How do I get Greek letters font in Affinity Design? I cant find the symbol font.

[Uuiop]

If you use a Mac the Greek unicode glyphs can be found here: 

 

[glazer]

But I am using Windows!

[Alfred]

I posted this before but had no answer. So I shall try again.

 

Instead of starting a new thread, it would have been preferable to 'bump' your earlier one by posting to it again.

 

There is no 'Insert Symbol' feature in Affinity Designer. You will need to copy and paste from Windows Character Map or (better, in my view) BabelMap.

[glazer]

I must say that is very odd as it is normally just one of the standard fonts you find in all Windows software.

[R C-R]

Greek is not a font. Most (but not all) fonts include Greek alphabetic characters like beta (β) or omega (Ω) in the same way they include Latin alphabetic characters like b or z.

 

For characters you can't type directly from the keyboard, use something like Alfred suggested.

[glazer]

You  isunderstand what I am saying. Take for instance Microsoft Word or for that matter DrawPlus. In the Fonts pull down menu you can find the entry called Symbol which contains all the Greek letters. My question is why is this not implemented in Affinity Design?

[Alfred]

I can't reproduce this. As a Windows user you should have both Symbol and Tahoma installed, and as a Serif 'Plus' user you may also have* the Helvetica lookalike Swis721 BT. In Affinity Designer 1.5 on my system, the Symbol font is listed (as expected) between Swis721 BT and Tahoma.

 

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*Or maybe not! I've just checked, and found that it wasn't distributed with DrawPlus.

[R C-R]

You  isunderstand what I am saying. Take for instance Microsoft Word or for that matter DrawPlus. In the Fonts pull down menu you can find the entry called Symbol which contains all the Greek letters. My question is why is this not implemented in Affinity Design?

Are you talking about the Symbol font or something else? Most modern fonts include the common Greek letters accessible at the standard Unicode code points reserved for Greek & Coptic symbols (the range of U+0370 through U+03FF).

 

How you access them depends on the operating system, the system language setting, & so on. Usually, at least some of them can be typed using modifier keys (like shift + alt + a letter or another key on the keyboard); others may require some special escape sequence or another app.

 

As a Mac user, I can't help you with any of the specifics of how that works on Windows but Alfred seems to be giving you good advice about that.

[glazer]

Yes, thanks,  I found it finally. I wonder if it was missing in the beta version then.

[Alfred]

Yes, thanks,  I found it finally.

 

That's good news! :)

 

I wonder if it was missing in the beta version then.

 

No, the apps themselves are not supplied with any fonts. They simply use whatever fonts are installed or loaded in Windows. (Unlike DrawPlus, Affinity Designer will refresh its font cache if you install or uninstall any fonts while it is running.)