Affont 1.1.1 & 1.1.2: bitmap letters, several letters without a template and live Auto-spacing

Two updates in one post. What’s new:

Bitmap letters (1.1.2)

• Draw or paint letters in Affinity’s Pixel studio (brushes, watercolor, charcoal…) and Affont builds the font in OpenType-SVG format with your design, texture and transparency included. An image placed over a cell works too.
• Auto-vectorize, in the Glyph screen, turns a bitmap letter into vectors from its traced silhouette.
• Import SVG or PNG… now also accepts PNG files to import glyphs (name each file after its letter: A.png, b.png).

Bitmap letters show in apps that support color fonts (Affinity, Adobe apps, macOS); elsewhere you’ll see their silhouette.

Tip: to keep Affinity layer effects (glows, shadows, bevels…), apply the effect to each letter, then use Layer ▸ Rasterize & Trim… and send: each letter arrives as a bitmap letter, effects included.

Several letters at once, without a template (1.1.1)

• In Affinity, draw the letters side by side (in one or more rows), select them and run “Affont - Send”.
• Affont opens New characters: type which character each shape is (Tab moves to the next one), or all of them at once in All in order (“ABCDEFG”).
• They are scaled and set on the baseline from their names, and the dot of the i and accents are joined automatically.

Glyph: shapes on their own (1.1.1)

• Click a shape (the i and its dot are two) to move, scale, rotate or delete it on its own; Shift + click adds more.
• Paste inside adds what you copied to the letter without erasing what it already has, and leaves it selected so you can place it.

Auto-space and Auto-kerning, live (1.1.1)

• The result shows live while you change the values; Apply keeps it and closing without applying discards it.
• Drag the numbers sideways to raise or lower them.

After updating, import the Affinity scripts again:

1. In Affont: Settings ▸ Scripts for Affinity (.afscripts)…
2. In Affinity: Script Library ▸ ▾ menu ▸ Import scripts… (delete the old “Affont” category first).