Neue Versionen und Ankündigungen vom Affont-Team.
A big update. What’s new: Native Affinity files Besides the Affinity scripts, Affont now opens your .af files natively, with nothing in between. Affinity ▸ New .af template, in the top bar: pick the character set and a…
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A smaller update, shaped by two questions from type designers this week. What’s new: Italics, obliques and slanted scripts Smart spacing and smart kerning used to measure each letter horizontally, so a slanted letter…
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A big one, shaped by the feedback of type designers who use Affont every day. What’s new: Type right on the text In Font, Kerning, Spacing, Ligatures and Preview you click on the large text and type right there, with a…
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Two updates in one post. What’s new: Latin multilingual (1.1.5) Two new character sets, in Add set… and in the Affinity template: Latin multilingual (Europe): every Latin-script language in Europe, plus Turkish (Polish,…
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Two updates in one post. What’s new: Bitmap letters (1.1.2) Draw or paint letters in Affinity’s Pixel studio (brushes, watercolor, charcoal…) and Affont builds the font in OpenType-SVG format with your design, texture…
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What’s new: Contextual alternates Alternates can now change on their own depending on the letters around them, with nothing to turn on. In the Ligatures screen, each alternate has a menu that says when it appears: At…
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Affont 1.1.0 is the biggest update so far. What’s new: Smart kerning and spacing Auto-space… sets the side bearings of every letter from its shape, with the air of your n: round and diagonal letters end up closer than…
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What’s new: The Export screen has been redesigned: your font, live, on the left (name, waterfall and character set) and the export options on the right. You can now save that image of your font as a PNG, handy for…
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Affont 1.0.8 is out now: Two new character sets in the template and in the app: Nordic: the letters of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Icelandic (Æ Ø Å Ä Ö Ð Þ…), with per-language coverage and sample text.…
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What’s new: Affont is now available in German and Thai, including the Affinity scripts. The template’s Latin character set now includes the German letters (Ä, Ö, Ü, ß) and low quotation marks („ ‚), and “Build accented”…
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What’s new: Letters made of overlapping shapes that share edges no longer come out empty or with their counters filled in when you export the font. Fixed issues that could keep fonts from traveling correctly from…
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What’s new: Affont is now available in Dutch and Indonesian, including the Affinity scripts. The Affinity scripts’ windows appear in the language you use Affont in, even when Affont is closed. Before, they could appear…
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What’s new: 1.0.3 Shapes with an invisible stroke (a stroke width but no stroke color, common with Affinity’s shape tools) no longer come out with curved sides or deformed corners: only visible strokes are exported.…
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Affont for Mac is now signed and notarized by Apple: it opens with no security warnings, on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. Also on Mac: The open and save dialogs no longer freeze the app. A native menu bar, with ⌘…
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Affont is here: draw your letters in Affinity, send them with one click and Affont turns them into an OTF or TTF font installed on your computer. What’s in it: Send your letters from Affinity with the Affont scripts, no…
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