One of my very first vector-drawing projects was the creation of a PostScript font that served to automate the creation of data-driven diagrams in a Hypercard stack for configuring the body sections and seating plans for school buses. Many of the identity packages I've built for clients have included custom standalone fonts or modified copies of their style guide font with their logos (when appropriate)-and often additional secondary elements designed to go along with them (custom bullets, etc.)-for just that purpose. It can still be a very handy way to provide a company with cross-platform, accurate, scalable vector graphics requiring no real learning curve to empower office workers to insert identity marks into internal and external documents or databases. (One thing that comes to mind is that it could be a boon to embroidery hobbyists.) But having said that, the fact that actual typographic font design is quite involved does not render it inappropriate for a mainstream general-purpose Bezier drawing program to provide a couple of basic font file format exports. Like Alfred, I wouldn't make it a priority for Affinity, with so many other far more immediately important things still under development. So, like Corel, why not provide bare-bones basic exports for a couple of formats? It's always been quite common for the actual glyphs of fonts to be drawn in mainstream Bezier-based drawing programs, even when the font file itself is built in a full-blown font program. It can be a wonderful thing to have in a drawing program not necessarily for full-blown typographic fonts, but for monospaced 'clipart' fonts. Screenshot of CorelDRAW 2020's export dialog:Įven though Fontographer 1.0 was actually my very first exposure to Bezier-based drawing, I've always applauded Corel's inclusion of this. It was possible to export to TTF way back in the days of CorelDRAW! 3.0… I hope you will consider making this feature available in future versions of Affinity Designer.
#FONTLAB STUDIO CREATING A FONT FONTCREATER SOFTWARE#
The ability to create my own fonts is one of the features that I would really love to have in the vector software that I use. I want to be able to use these fonts in Affinity Designer but also in other supporting software that I work with. It would be very helpful to me if I could create fonts from start to finish within Affinity Designer. I want to skip the process of using other software, websites, and templates from other sources in order to be able to create my own font. Because of my constant reliance on using fonts in Affinity Designer, I want to be able to design them within this software, but also complete the entire process and be able to export ready-to-use fonts. Text is used when creating logos and other types of designs for companies that are heavily personalized. The use of fonts is also much more prevalent in vector software than it is in any other software.
Affinity Designer focuses on creating vector designs but the font is just as important to the design as the art. I wish the fonts were my own, just as the design is my own. I create my vector designs in Affinity Designer, but a big part of my designs is the fonts that I use.
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