Shaping Text: Type, Typography and the Reader

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This is the inevitable conclusion when looking at the way in which today’s computer users are forced to make decisions about fonts and layout for their day-to-day communication. Pops up a dialog with two inputs: The string you wish to find, and the string you wish to replace it with. Text shaping is a fundamental process in typography and computer typesetting that influences the aesthetics and readability of text in various languages and scripts. For example, in Devanagari, which is written from left to right, the grapheme for "short i" appears to the left of ("before") the consonant that it follows: in कि ki, the ि -i should render on the left, its bow reaching until above the क k- to the right.

We'll use a simple badge design to exemplify all the techniques you can use to edit and stylize texts on a curve in Affinity Designer. To edit the contents of an envelope, hit Ctrl-Shift-V, to get back to the envelope shape itself, same thing. If you want to enable or disable a specific feature you can pass a dictionary containing the 4 digit OpenType feature code as key and a boolean value to indicate if it should be enabled or disable.

Another common use of glyph substitution is to replace a sequence of characters by a symbol that better represent the meaning of those characters on a specialized context (mathematical, programming, etc. Now that you know how to make curved text in Affinity Designer, you might need a nice background to make your final design stand out.

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