Guides Colour

[Designer in a Shed]

Guides Manager is working nicely (liking the option to set as percentage) : is there any way to set guide colours though?

Couldn't see anything obvious in prefs / help topics. I realise it's quite a cosmetic thing, but when working on a layout with blue flood background it can be hard to see them, so would be handy to have the option :) 

 - D

[MEB]

Hi Designer in a Shed,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
There's no way to set guide's colours, only grids at this point.

[fde101]

As an extension to this, the color could be a propery of the guide, adding another column in the guide manager with color wells to allow different guides to be different colors.

[Bad_Wolf]

Individual colors for guides, so that guides can have different colors would be great! Hope the Affinity team can implement this. As an example I included a screencapture from another program.

Chris

[ColinK]

This can be a problem. I have been working on a project with a lot of blue, and the guides just disappear. A workaround, though, is to create a long, thin rectangle. You can make it any colour and thickness you like. Another problem I have with the guides is that they are only horizontal and vertical, which isn't much help for perspective work. Again, I get around this by creating guides made out of stretched rectangles, but it would be better if I didn't have to use a workaround for something fairly fundamental.

[Old Bruce]

8 hours ago, ColinK said:

This can be a problem. I have been working on a project with a lot of blue, and the guides just disappear. A workaround, though, is to create a long, thin rectangle. You can make it any colour and thickness you like. Another problem I have with the guides is that they are only horizontal and vertical, which isn't much help for perspective work. Again, I get around this by creating guides made out of stretched rectangles, but it would be better if I didn't have to use a workaround for something fairly fundamental.

I can't remember what software it was but you could create a bunch of vector shapes and then 'promote' that layer to a "Guides Layer" I'd love to see that across the Affinity suite.