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Fontsmith Collection for Affinity V1/V2 customers

Guvnor

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If you own a previous Affinity app—version 1 or 2 of Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, or Affinity Publisher—you can claim the Fontsmith Collection, a curated, premium font library that early Affinity users can call their own.

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I was wondering what they were going to give previous Affinity buyers when they announced the free version.

I’ve not downloaded the free version yet. Not sure how it’s going to play out (I previously bought v1 and v2) so going to leave it for a while.
 
I grabbed these fonts and they are nice fonts. It's of course natural that you would need to sign in to your account to download them but I am a little put off by the fact that you need to remain signed in to use them (there is in the Affinity V2 apps a menu option to sign in.

To be honest I never bother signing in before, I forget the option existed. Now I wonder what the sign in option even does, and does it require being online to work. For the time being I figure I'll just use the fonts I installed on Windows with the licences I understand.
 
dpmcalister said:
I was wondering what they were going to give previous Affinity buyers when they announced the free version.

I’ve not downloaded the free version yet. Not sure how it’s going to play out (I previously bought v1 and v2) so going to leave it for a while.
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I downloaded the new versions - it can sit side-by-side the old, but as I am in the middle of things and used to the V2 apps, I've not switch over. Not seen a lot of new features that shout "I need this now".
 
I just downloaded them and installed them into my OS
 
I’ve downloaded and used the new app and there’s a little bit of a mental gear change, but it’s definitely worth trying. I mainly used the Designer mode as I was doing covers for Grimwild etc and it worked slickly and was stable.

If you want to take advantage of the pack above, you’ll probably have to install it because you need to link your existing Affinity account to it. That doe make it easier to install older purchases though.

I’m not certain if the fonts install so they can be used system wide or in Affinity only. Need to dig into that.

The key thing is don’t open an AF1 or AF2 file in AF3 and modify it without saving a copy first because you can’t go back.
 
Polar Blues said:
I grabbed these fonts and they are nice fonts. It's of course natural that you would need to sign in to your account to download them but I am a little put off by the fact that you need to remain signed in to use them (there is in the Affinity V2 apps a menu option to sign in.

To be honest I never bother signing in before, I forget the option existed. Now I wonder what the sign in option even does, and does it require being online to work. For the time being I figure I'll just use the fonts I installed on Windows with the licences I understand.
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In the old version it just validated your licence number (and gave you access to any purchases). I don’t think you need to be online to work, but will check.
 
Dom said:
In the old version it just validated your licence number (and gave you access to any purchases). I don’t think you need to be online to work, but will check.
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@Dom You can access these fonts from V2. @Polar Blues you only need to login once, download and install into your OS, the fonts are then part of your OS and don't need the Net
 
Guvnor said:
@Dom You can access these fonts from V2. @Polar Blues you only need to login once, download and install into your OS, the fonts are then part of your OS and don't need the Net
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That's very interesting. It's not been my experience. The way I got the fonts was by
1. Starting up an Affinity v2 app (Designer for instance)
2. Clicked on the Account icon and signed in
3. From the Account Panel I Downloaded the fonts

Following this, two things are apparent.
a. The new fonts are only available to my Affinity apps, unlike other fonts which are available for any other app (Photoshop, LibreOffice, etc...)
b. If, always within an Affinity app, I sign out, the fonts disappear. If I was using them in a open Affinity document they instantly get replaced with an alternate random font.
c. If you are already signed in on the Affinity app you can work offline with this fonts. Affinity remembers between session if you are signed in our out.
d. If you are not signed in already, you cannot sign in while offline, and thus access the new fonts so there is a "phone home" function at play.

Given these limitiations I am not keen to use the new fonts for anything serious or any document I might want to revise in 2-3 year time (despite the fact that they are rather nice fonts).

If you have manged to install the fonts and make the regular OS fonts, I'd love to hear how.
 
They may be doing the MS trick of having the fonts in the application package (usually done for licensing reasons). I’ll look a bit later and see if they’re doing something like that.
 
Some answers.

  • Access to fonts remains when offline
  • The fonts are not installed in the system FONTS folder in /Library (macOS)
  • The fonts are not obvious within the Affinity.app program package file (macOS)
 
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Dom said:
Some answers.

  • Access to fonts remains when offline
  • The fonts are not installed in the system FONTS folder in /Library (macOS)
  • The fonts are not obvious within the Affinity.app program package file (macOS)
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I find that quite confusing.
 
Yeah, I need to dig in a bit deeper and try and understand where they are.
 
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