Typography and Text Flashcards

Which Affinity Designer panel allows you to apply paragraph styles for consistent heading and body text formatting?

Answer: Paragraph Styles panel (Text Styles panel)

The Text Styles panel stores named Paragraph and Character styles; applying them ensures typographic consistency across the document.

In Affinity Designer, what is OpenType 'Ligatures' used for?

Answer: Automatically replacing specific character combinations (e.g., fi, fl) with single designed glyphs

Ligatures substitute common letter pairs or groups with a single glyph designed for better visual harmony, such as replacing 'fi' with a unified 'fi' glyph.

What does 'Baseline Shift' do in Affinity Designer's Character panel?

Answer: Moves selected characters up or down relative to the text baseline

Baseline Shift raises or lowers characters from the line's baseline, useful for creating superscript, subscript, or custom typographic effects.

Which Affinity Designer feature lets you link two text frames so text overflows from one into the other?

Answer: Flow text between frames using the overflow handle (red triangle)

Clicking the red overflow triangle on a full text frame then clicking another frame links them, allowing excess text to flow into the second frame.

What does the 'All Caps' option in Affinity Designer's Character panel do differently from typing in CAPS LOCK?

Answer: It applies a non-destructive style so the underlying text remains lowercase; CAPS LOCK changes the actual characters stored

All Caps is a typographic style attribute—the stored text stays as typed; removing All Caps restores lowercase, unlike CAPS LOCK which changes the actual characters.

In Affinity Designer, how do you apply kerning between two specific characters?

Answer: Place the cursor between the characters and adjust the Kerning value in the Character panel

Placing the text cursor between two characters and adjusting the Kerning (pair kerning) field applies spacing specific to that character pair.