Richard S. Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Hi, does anyone know the best way to create a text swash, which goes under text? An Affinity Photo or designer tutorial would be a great benefit. Thank you all Iin advance. Quote High-End Photographic Prints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alfred Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 29 minutes ago, DesignMeister said: does anyone know the best way to create a text swash, which goes under text? Swashes are usually attached to text characters, either above or below. Is that what you want, or are you actually thinking of flourishes? 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...
Richard S. Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 Alfred, I’m talking about text swash, such as in the soft drink logos Quote High-End Photographic Prints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 There's no real need for a tutorial for this. One just needs the fonts with swashes in order to do so. Then those swashe characters can be activated via the OpenType features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 33 minutes ago, DesignMeister said: Alfred, I’m talking about text swash, such as in the soft drink logos If you want swashes like the ones in soft drink logos, Loki Cola seems an obvious choice. Note: Other soft drink logo fonts are available! 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...
Richard S. Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 Yes, I have seen fonts which contain these, but I would like to start making my own which I can add to my existin* fonts. The problem is I am not sure where to start? Quote High-End Photographic Prints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 29 minutes ago, DesignMeister said: Yes, I have seen fonts which contain these, but I would like to start making my own which I can add to my existin* fonts. The problem is I am not sure where to start? I suggest playing with shape tools such as the Tear and the Crescent. For example, you can create a Nike swash quite easily by duplicating a tear shape, rotating the duplicate slightly, overlapping it with the original and then subtracting. 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...
Richard S. Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 Thanks, I will experiment with shapes Quote High-End Photographic Prints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 15, 2018 Staff Share Posted July 15, 2018 DesignMeister, You can also use stroke's Pressure Profiles to create them (depending on the style you are looking for) or at least use them as a base to start after expanding the stroke to curves. Adding them to an existing or new font requires specialised software (font editors). Uncle Mez 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 47 minutes ago, MEB said: stroke's Pressure Profiles The problem with those Meb, is that if you need to convert the stroke to curves (example: before adding different forms), you get strange results, and you need to correct some angular shapes that were curves before convertion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Mez Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, DesignMeister said: Hi, does anyone know the best way to create a text swash, which goes under text? An Affinity Photo or designer tutorial would be a great benefit. Thank you all Iin advance. @DesignMeister there is another way to overcome that thing. One of my many techincs is to learn from what other Designers do on PS or Ai them apply the same thing but using variant/different way of working things out with affinity. it has helped me to shorten my workflow and even master new method and ... integrate them in my creative work. i would say: if it works with PS or Ai then it will work with Affinity. Also, do not hesitate to jump from Adesigner to APhoto, i personally take advantage of that functionality. Staying on Vector/Pixel only environement is (to me) the hold way of processing; with Affinity New ways of Creativity are Yours! Edited July 15, 2018 by Arnaud Mez Needed to retype missing text Wosven 1 Quote Never be the Same Again ! ---Dell Optiplex 5090 SFFIntel Core i5-10500T @2.30GHz with 12GiB 2666MHz DDR4Intel UHD Graphics 630 for 10th Generation M.2 2280, 512 GB, PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4, Class 40 SSDWindows 11 Pro x64 22H2 + LibreOffice 7.5.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard S. Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 Me ha????? Uncle Mez 1 Quote High-End Photographic Prints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 I suspect he found the shortcut to submit while writing like I did earlier today Uncle Mez 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 An image search about "arabesque" can provide a lot of examples, or looking at Adobe Wood Type Ornaments font. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 3 minutes ago, Wosven said: Ornaments Ornaments on Font Squirrel. Wosven 1 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...
Richard S. Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 I have decided to try and draw a swoosh by hand. If I use the pen tool, is there some kind of tool which will smoohen wobbly hand drawn curves, like there is in Illustratot? Thanks for all the input Quote High-End Photographic Prints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 34 minutes ago, DesignMeister said: I have decided to try and draw a swoosh by hand. If I use the pen tool, is there some kind of tool which will smoohen wobbly hand drawn curves ... If you use the Pen Tool, the curve will not be wobbly unless you create a lot more nodes than is necessary for a smooth curve. 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...
Alfred Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 An easy way to draw a smooth curve is to draw a straight line with the Pen Tool and then drag on the line with the Node Tool. In AD on iPad, choose the Pen Tool, tap at the start and end positions of the straight line segment, tap on the ‘—Edit—‘ icon on the Context toolbar and then drag on the line to reshape it to a curve. firstdefence 1 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...
firstdefence Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Made an Asset Category Friskets > French Curves Friskets.afassets Wosven, Richard S. and Alfred 3 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard S. Posted July 16, 2018 Author Share Posted July 16, 2018 Thanks for making the assets. I will also try to make some, once I have worked out how to do. It Much appreciated. Quote High-End Photographic Prints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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