Symbols (Affinity Designer)

Learn how to use symbols (linked objects) to make your design workflows more efficient.
Credits: Designs by Katy McCabe.

[@kbruin79]

Wow! that’s how tutorials should be. Very smooth, practical, highly useful and straight to the point. Affinity rocks!

[@morgantat7163]

Very smooth and easy, Great tut

[@thoughtsRpower]

Great explanation and examples. Well done!

[@danatur]

Very good explanation! What I really need in Symbols is: when you change the text in an unlinked symbol, the styles are also unlinked. Position and size are linked but if you want to change the color of the text it is not synced with the other symbols. Is there a workaround, will this be changed in the future?

[@SamPandiangan]

Wow! This is amazing.

[@JulianHibbert]

Awesome, Awesome, Awesome!!!!

[@BettyMullins]

I would like to see being able to save symbols the way you do assets in affinity designer

[@fernsehdesign]

Hi, I just tried it and it does work. You create your Symbol and select it. With the Assets panel you click that tiny stripy Hamburger-menu on the right side that holds additional functions. From there select "Add from Selection". This creates an asset. Which you can export using the respective funtion from the other Hamburger menu above the first one. THere you have import, export, etc. Hope this helps

[@BettyMullins]

@@fernsehdesign thanks...

[@Ziplock9000]

Is there a way to sync symbols with the your account in the cloud to use between instances of AD ?

[@JannieCummerou]

Great explanation, ive used symbols but not knowing its full potential. Does these symbols go across to Affinity Publisher? Do you have a tutorial on how to best make a "mock up canvas" as you've one in this tutorial? its very handy to have in the same file.

[@mireidy4288]

Hello can you make a video telling us how to export a visual identity logo pack for a client. I tried but cant understand how to chance the resolution of the jpg or png for impesion or web.

[@grampsworld]

I must try this could be very useful

[@owldino]

Thank you! this is very helpful.

[@charlesxix]

Incredible, thanks.

[@dmmchugh3714]

What exactly does 'snapping' do or allow ? Trying to understand that term.

[@ThorstenSO]

Guys, this is beautiful. Do I have Symbols (or linked objects) in Publisher too?

[@Affinity_Katy]

Hi, you can access the Symbols panel in the Designer persona within Publisher. If you're in the Designer persona, you'll find it in the window menu. 😊

[@righttoexplain]

Amazing!

[@OzeiasQueiroz]

Muito útil para manuais de identidade visual.

[@cjsSeidel.and.art.]

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[@dasistmeinaccount123]

Is this a computer generated voice? :)

[@Affinity_Katy]

No this is my voice 🙋‍♀😄

[@dasistmeinaccount123]

^^@@Affinity_Katy