Typography and Text Flashcards
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Which tool in Affinity Designer is used to place and edit text on the canvas?
Answer: Artistic Text Tool
The Artistic Text Tool creates standalone text that expands as you type, ideal for headlines and short labels.
What is the key difference between Artistic Text and Frame Text in Affinity Designer?
Answer: Artistic Text grows freely with content; Frame Text is constrained to a fixed container
Artistic Text expands horizontally/vertically as you type with no boundary, while Frame Text overflows or reflows within the defined frame.
How do you flow text along a curve in Affinity Designer?
Answer: Select both the text and the path, then use Text > Flow Text to Path (or Put on Path)
Selecting a text object and a path together, then using Text > Put on Path, anchors the text baseline to follow the curve.
In Affinity Designer, where do you access leading (line spacing) settings for text?
Answer: Character or Paragraph panel
The Character and Paragraph panels contain leading, tracking, kerning, and other typographic controls for selected text.
What does the 'Tracked' or tracking value control in Affinity Designer's Character panel?
Answer: The uniform spacing added between all characters in a range of selected text
Tracking adjusts letter-spacing uniformly across selected text, while kerning targets specific pairs; positive values spread letters, negative values tighten them.
How do you convert text to editable vector curves in Affinity Designer?
Answer: Select the text and choose Layer > Convert to Curves
Convert to Curves transforms each character into its outline path, making it fully editable as a vector shape but no longer editable as live text.