Affinity Designer

Affinity Designer is a vector graphics software developed by Serif (Europe) Ltd. According to the vendor, it is designed for professional illustrators, web designers, game developers, and other creatives. The software aims to assist users in creating high-quality concept art, print projects, logos, icons, UI designs, mock-ups, and more.

Key Features

Live, responsive, and fast: Affinity Designer, according to the vendor, can handle a large number of objects without experiencing any lag. It offers features such as layer groups and color tagging to aid in organization, live outline view for precise selections, and the ability to zoom up to one million percent and beyond.

Fully featured vector and raster workspaces: Affinity Designer provides both vector and raster capabilities. Users can add raster brush texture to illustrations, edit single pixels on icons, mask and add grain to vectors, and enclose and clip pixel layers.

Hundreds of timesaving tools and functions: Affinity Designer offers a range of tools and functions that, according to the vendor, can save users time. These include attribute matching for easy editing, effortless setup of grids, guides, and planes, linking symbols and constraints, and customizable keyboard shortcuts.

Achieve pixel-perfect designs every time: Affinity Designer, as claimed by the vendor, ensures pixel-perfect designs by providing a pixel preview mode to view vectors in standard and retina resolution. It also offers a live view of how every element will export.

Layout all screens, pages, menus, and other items across unlimited artboards: Affinity Designer allows users to lay out multiple elements across unlimited artboards, making it suitable for creating social media templates, website mock-ups, and digital content.

Sophisticated typography options: According to the vendor, Affinity Designer offers a range of typography options. Users can flow text along any path, create custom typography, add ligatures and artistic text, and utilize character and paragraph styles.

Professional output for digital, print, or collaboration: The vendor claims that Affinity Designer enables users to turn their work into merchandise, marketing materials, or digital and print publications. It also allows for collaboration on the same project across different devices.

Any device, anywhere: Affinity Designer supports the same file format across Windows, Mac, and iPad, enabling users to work seamlessly on their projects across different devices.

Extremely versatile and compatible: Affinity Designer, according to the vendor, supports major file types and combines color spaces. It is compatible with formats such as JPEG, PDF, SVG, PSD, PNG, TIFF, GIF, and DWG/DXF.

Grayscale and no FX view mode options: Affinity Designer offers view mode options to hide layer effects or switch to grayscale, allowing users to focus on specific aspects of their design.