jackamus Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Is there a way to change the default 'Text box' font from Times to something else for all new documents? I hate Times!!!! Quote If voting made any difference it wouldn't be allowed! Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools. To be ignorant of world happenings is forgivable - to be willingly ignorant is unforgivable. Truth does not need to be protected only lies do. Mac OS Monterey 12.6.4 AD version 2.3.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 For me on Mac it's Arial, there is nothing in Preferences to set a different font, maybe create a document template? example set to blackletter: Blackletter template for textbox.afdesign 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...
jmwellborn Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 2 hours ago, jackamus said: Is there a way to change the default 'Text box' font from Times to something else for all new documents? I hate Times!!!! I saved this from a forum posting by Dave Harris, one of the Affinity staff, several months ago. Wish I could find it on the forums, but can't, so I will just quote him: "If you want to change which style is set on text by default, then apply that style to some text and use Edit>Defaults>Save. Probably best to do this in a pristine document so you don't save more changes than you intend -- it will save all the object defaults, including shape fills and strokes, etc. "Save Styles as Defaults makes the current stylesheet the default for new documents. Changing the Base style changes the formatting that all the default paragraph styles inherit from. It doesn't in itself apply a style." I am on MAC too, and positively hate Arial. So I used the Edit>Defaults>Save option described above and it works famously. Hope this helps. firstdefence and Alfred 2 Quote 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.3. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 For more about defaults, you can refer to the Object Defaults help topic. Among other things, note that they "are stored separately for stroke and fill attributes, artistic text attributes, and frame text attributes." 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...
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