Does Affinity support professional typography features?

Yes. Affinity supports professional, advanced typography features like OpenType, kerning and tracking adjustments, baseline shift, text-on-a-path, reusable styles, and full paragraph controls suitable for professional print and digital typesetting.

Can I create long-form documents with flowing text?

Yes. You can link text frames across multiple pages, manage master pages, and control consistent typography with reusable styles for books, reports, and editorial layouts.

Is Affinity suitable for font design?

Affinity supports advanced font controls and OpenType features. It provides powerful tools for working with professional fonts inside complex design projects.

Can I import documents from other design tools?

Affinity supports importing formats such as IDML, PDF, PSD, and more, helping you transition existing layouts while preserving structure and typographic intent.

Is typography non-destructive?

Yes. Text remains fully editable at every stage, allowing you to adjust content, formatting, and styles without flattening or committing changes.

Typography design

From expressive headlines to meticulous typesetting, Affinity gives you full control over your type, without slowing your creative flow.

Get Affinity

How to master typography in Affinity

Here’s how to nail every layout with typographic precision.

Add and format text

Use the Artistic Text Tool for headlines or the Frame Text Tool for long-form layouts. Apply fonts, adjust tracking and leading, and activate OpenType features directly from the context toolbar for precise control.

Refine spacing and hierarchy

Fine-tune kerning, baseline shift, paragraph spacing, alignment, and justification. Build reusable character and paragraph styles to maintain consistency across pages, artboards, or entire publications — essential for professional typesetting.

Design complex layouts

Link text frames across pages, flow copy automatically, wrap text around images, and integrate tables and data merges. From brochures to full-length books, your typography adapts as your layout evolves.

Every word, perfectly set

Adjust kerning pairs manually, explore alternate glyphs, enable ligatures, and fine-tune stylistic sets. In Affinity, typography isn’t an afterthought – it’s made for designers who obsess over the craft.

Typographic settings in Affinity Layout Studio, adjusting the letter O in the word "Look"

Complete control down to the glyph

Control kerning, leading, tracking, and OpenType features with accuracy. Flow text along curves, explore variable fonts, and see every adjustment live on the page. Whether you’re refining micro-spacing or building complex editorial layouts⁠(opens in a new tab or window), your type stays fast, flexible, and fully editable.

The craft of branding

From custom wordmarks to defined typography systems, Affinity gives you the tools to build distinctive brand identities. Plus, with Canva Brand Systems⁠(opens in a new tab or window) inside Affinity, you have the control you need to create scalable assets that hold up everywhere.

Adjusting tracking in Affinity Page Layout

Advanced typography, built in

Affinity gives you powerful control over your type in real-world layouts. Work with alternate glyphs, variable fonts, artistic sets, and more to shape type exactly as you intend — without the complexity of standalone font design software.

Start of section: Advanced typography, built in

Skip to end of “Advanced typography, built in” section

Variable fonts

Fine-tune weight, width, and style to find the perfect type.

Illustration showing the lowercase letter "a" in seven different font weights, from 800 (extra bold) to 200 (extra light), on a purple background.

Text on a path

Flow text along curves, circles, and shapes.

Ligatures

Switch on crafted character pairs for cleaner typography.

Glyphs

Access alternate characters beyond the keyboard.

Frame text

Place and control text within flexible layout frames.

Screenshot showing text flowing automatically within linked text frames in a magazine-style page layout.

Artistic text

Create expressive type that scales and moves like a design object.

Type controls

Refine spacing and styles with precision.

Screenshot showing character formatting controls for editing text properties such as font, size, spacing, and decorations.

Skip to start of “Advanced typography, built in” section

End of section: Advanced typography, built in

Advanced typography, built in

Start of list: Advanced typography, built in

Skip to end of “Advanced typography, built in” list