Does Affinity have a font creator?
No. Affinity 3 (and the older Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher) can use any installed font and convert text to curves, but it can’t export a font file. There’s no OTF or TTF option when you export, and no panel for glyphs, spacing or kerning.
Users have been asking for a built-in font creator on the Affinity forums for years. What changed is that Affinity 3.3 added a Script Library, so a font creator can now run inside Affinity. That’s what Affont is.
What Affont adds to Affinity
Affont is a font creator in two parts that work together:
- Two scripts in Affinity’s Script Library. One creates a template with a cell for every character; the other sends what you drew.
- A companion app for Windows and macOS. It receives your letters, compiles the font with fontTools and installs it, so it shows up in Affinity’s font list in seconds.
In between, you draw with every tool Affinity has: the Pen, shapes and boolean operations, brushes, strokes you haven’t expanded and pasted artwork. Change a letter, send again and the installed font updates. The full walkthrough is in how to make a font in Affinity.
Your options for making a font with Affinity
There are three ways to get from letters to a font file. They differ in where you draw and how much work happens by hand.
| Affont | SVG + font editor | Handwriting web app | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where you draw | In Affinity | In Affinity, then you rebuild it in the editor | On paper, then you scan it |
| Getting letters into the font | One click (“Send”) | Export each letter as SVG and import them one by one | Upload the filled-in template |
| Spacing and kerning | Visual: lines in Affinity, drag pairs in the app | Full control, with a learning curve | Basic |
| Ligatures, alternates and color | Yes | Yes, depending on the editor | Limited |
| Examples | Affont | FontForge (free), Glyphs (Mac), FontCreator (Windows) | Calligraphr |
| Cost | $19 one-time | From free to several hundred dollars | Limited free plan or a subscription |
If you already know a font editor, the SVG route gives you total control. If you’d rather keep drawing in Affinity and skip exporting, importing and aligning every letter, that’s exactly the part Affont automates.
Based on each product’s public information in October 2026. Product names are trademarks of their owners. Affont is not affiliated with any of them.
What you can make with it
- Handwriting fonts: trace your own writing in Affinity and type with it. More in how to make your own font.
- Display and logo lettering: turn a custom headline style or wordmark into a complete alphabet.
- Color fonts: letters painted with several colors or gradients export as OpenType-SVG with a COLR fallback.
- OpenType features: name a cell f_i for a ligature, a.alt1 for an alternate or a.ss01 for a stylistic set.
- Font families: Regular, Bold, Italic and more, grouped under one family name.
- Symbols: any vector shape can go in a cell, not just letters.
- Several languages: ready-made character sets for English, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese kana, plus generated accents.
Every font exports as OTF, TTF or WOFF2 for the web.
Price and requirements
- Affinity 3.3 or later, a free download for Windows and macOS.
- Affont for Windows 10/11 or macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon and Intel): a single $19 payment, valid on 3 devices, with every version 1 update included.
- No subscription and no limit on the number of fonts. They’re 100% yours, including for commercial use.
It doesn’t work with Affinity 2 or earlier (they have no scripting) or on the iPad.