7 Essential Typography Tips in Affinity Publisher

[@pieralessi7426]

👏👏👏 please more!

[@ChristopherBriscoe]

Exactly what I needed!

[@SBEtherwave]

Thanks! I made study flash cards from this!!!!!

[@amaaan_designs]

This video was gem. Ngl, as a typography nerd, everything was on point. Loved how you were able to blend in software tutorial & important theory tips here & there throughout the video. Amazing content. Keep going!

[@RyanMungia]

Love to hear it, especially coming from a fellow typography nerd. Thanks for watching!

[@dennisonberwick9546]

Great video, thanks. I've already published 14 books using Affinity Publisher (also creating 1000s designs using Affinity Designer). Please do a video on how to make micro-adjustments to the space between a numbered list and the text to deal with numbers that are different widths 1 v. 8. For example, in the Table of Content, the list of Chapter Headings looks slightly wavy because the chapter numbers are different widths. Hope i'm making this clear.

[@RyanMungia]

I'm glad you enjoyed the video! And 14 books-impressive work! For your question, have you tried adding a "hair space" or "thin space"? You can add a vertical guide where you want the Chapter Headings to align, then insert a few hair spaces (Text > Insert > Spaces & Tabs) to each heading to align them perfectly. Another option is using a monospace font for the numbers to ensure consistent widths and get rid of that wavy effect.

[@treeseasky]

Love all your videos. I found them super helpful! Clear to the point. And great voice, easy to follow. The details really matter. Thanks so much for creating such great content!

[@RyanMungia]

Thanks, Sabrina! That's super encouraging to hear.

[@Who.Said.Photography]

Incredible content, truly exceptional! Thanks, Ryan

[@RyanMungia]

Thanks, Bob - glad you liked it!

[@njusaguy]

Thanks, Ryan. Some great tips here. One thing I noticed, however, was your space between paragraphs. I was taught that you only added space between paragraphs when choosing to NOT indent the first line of each paragraph (everything left-aligned). If you are indenting the first line of each paragraph, there really isn’t a need to put extra space between paragraphs to show where one ends and the next begins. The indent does that for you. Of course, that was a long time ago. Have typography rules changed so that your way is standard now? Always interested in learning new things.

[@RyanMungia]

I think you are spot-on. There isn't a need for that extra space between paragraphs if you have that indent, and it would probably look much better without it. Thanks for pointing that out.

[@sergimarcet]

Super useful!! thanks!

[@RyanMungia]

Love to hear that! Thanks for commenting.

[@Audulf-of-Frisia]

Great tips, thanks!

[@edgardochoy]

Hi, thanks for this video. I found it very informative and it is a gem to keep. Greetings from Panama.

[@laryngolog]

Thank you Ryan. What are the curly apostrophes shortcuts on Windows? They seem not to corresponding to the Mac ones...

[@RyanMungia]

Good question. To insert a left apostrophe on Windows, type ALT+0145. For a right apostrophe, type ALT+0146. Note: you may have to activate Numbers Lock depending on your keyboard. Hope that helps!

[@websiteckron8591]

Awesome! I have bin a graphic designer my hole life (currently 50). Finaly someone who knows what he is doing. I am in the transition from InDesign to Publisher (used Quark, than Indesign now Publisher). I whish there where the same shortcuts though.

[@RyanMungia]

Hey, I remember Quark! (I'm 45.) I know what you mean about the shortcuts. I’ll see if I can find any info on that. I'm relatively new to Affinity too. Glad you found it useful.

[@imacmill]

Is this a joke?

[@neophron25]

I started with Aldus Pagemaker 5, then Adobe Pagemaker 6 later QXP 3.32 / 4.1 and with InDesign seriously V. 1.5. If you google »import Indesign shortcuts to affinity publisher« you'll find a lot of useful sources. And keep in mind, that you can edit every shortcut Publisher.

[@vidhyadhar64]

Nice tips...

[@augustosousa.50]

Mais uma boa aula. No In design existe uma ferramenta que marca esses problemas de (muitos espaços entre caracter ou pouco) em tom amarelo, e conforme a cor mais escura ou clara assim podemos encontrar formas de corregir mais rápido. Este programa já estudei e não tem essa opção. Lamento. Também penso que existe um scrip para encontrar os duplos espaços. Será que dá para este programa. Sou apenas um amador que publica os seus livros de memórias com 73 anos. Obrigado por sua atenção.

[@RyanMungia]

Not that I am aware of. I agree, that would certainly make things easier.

[@Neuvalence]

So all my life its actually been l-eh-ding and not l-ee-ding? 💀

[@RyanMungia]

💀💀

[@oo0Spyder0oo]

Music is ridiculous.

[@mterte]

Unwatchable because of background music. Pity because the content looked good.

[@RyanMungia]

Thanks for the feedback. Will definitely keep that in mind for future videos like this.