Type kit and affinity designer for iPad

[ChuckBraman]

  Is there a way to use adobe type kit fonts with affinity designer for iPad? 

[Dan C]

Hi ChuckBraman,

Welcome to the forums

According to the Adobe Forum posts below, it appears you can only sync Typekit fonts through the Comp CC app on iOS, it doesn't appear as though the fonts can be installed on the iPad directly, so unfortunately they aren't compatible with Affinity iOS currently, my apologies.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2492521

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2275317

[wgphoto]

i wouldn't hold your breath as Photoshop is coming to iPad next year, probably followed by Illustrator soon after. There's no incentive for Adobe to allow a competitor access to their cloud ecosystem.

[ChuckBraman]

Thank you @Dan C @wgphoto,

Two ideas for workarounds. You'll have to excuse my ignorance at this stage of your products, Typekit, and working with fonts in IOS vs. Mac OS. Could I solve this by:

1. Buying the desktop version of Affinity Designer, then, assuming it's possible to use Typekit fonts on there (is it?), start work on IOS, finish, swap out fonts, and export on Mac OS?
2. Buying the actual fonts I want to use from Adobe, and then install them on my IOS devices (not sure if that is possible either).

[Dan C]

No problem at all

1. Although I haven't used Typekits & Affinity together personally, my colleague Sean has confirmed they work as expected in the below thread, so it's certainly possible.

2. Provided any purchased font is provided as an install-able font file, such as a .TTF or .OTF, these can be installed on an iPad either system wide using a 3rd party font manager app, or directly in Affinity Designer (through settings, see this video)