Paul1980 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 I am using Designer on a Mac. I would like to be able to see font collections with Designer. I create collections in Font Book, the Mac OS font manager. I would like to see these collections in Affinity when I add or edit text. Currently, I only see a list of fonts, with the option to view recents/favorites/used. How do I see a list of font collections from WITHIN Designer (and other affinity apps) on the Desktop versions? Or is there another way to organize and quickly access font collections with affinity apps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted August 20, 2019 Staff Share Posted August 20, 2019 Use the Character panel (View > Studio > Character) the first dropdown menu should be titles All Font, click this the collections from FontBook should be available. Gear maker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 10 hours ago, Lee D said: Use the Character panel (View > Studio > Character) the first dropdown menu should be titles All Font, click this the collections from FontBook should be available. One thing to keep in mind about using Font Book with Affinity's Character panel is (at least in my experience) you should not name any of your Font Book collections "Favorites" because that conflicts with the Affinity "Favorites" collection & that results in fonts from the wrong Font Book collection being shown when you select one from the dropdown menu & makes the "Missing Fonts" item inaccessible. 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...
Gear maker Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 On 8/20/2019 at 5:34 AM, Lee D said: Use the Character panel (View > Studio > Character) the first dropdown menu should be titles All Font, click this the collections from FontBook should be available. After 5 years of using AD and I didn't know that. I guess I never explored that menu or forgot about it. Thanks Lee that will sure help make it easier. Quote iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scdbs Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 (edited) < FIXED> (see below) My fonts are not updating in any of the 3 apps. I can see full collections in all other Mac apps (Word, Excel, Motion 5, FCPX) but in Affinity apps they are VERY incomplete. I read about this being a bug after 1.7. Is there a fix for this yet? Fixed it! I had a collection called "Favorites". When I renamed it to "My Favorites" and then re-launched Designer, it was fixed! Edited March 28, 2020 by scdbs SOLVED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NunoF Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 Hi all What is the windows font manager best alternative to that mac software? (that works with affinity designer of course) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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