Its not ideal to work on icons in isolation, when they’re together you judge balance and consistency at a glance. If you’re designing a website, the document size dialog restricts your thinking before you’ve even started.Ī new document dialog in Affinity, choose before entering…Īs I do a lot of icon work, one of my first tests in any vector app is whether I can keep all the icon set in one file, and output each one to SVG easily with exactly the filename I desire. You can start working straight away without any confines. It doesn’t constrict you into choosing a document size, or output resolution, its just an infinite blank canvas. Opening a new Sketch document is a breath of fresh air. As someone who has spent a long time getting used to Sketch, I would say its well worth the learning curve.Ī new document in Sketch - no messing about The advantage with Affinity’s approach though is that there is less to relearn, and you can start ‘feeling at home’ early on. The Sketch interface is native, bright and yet neutral, whereas Affinity goes for the more contrasting ‘Dark UI’ of Adobe and Apple Pro apps. Sometimes Affinity goes so far in following Illustrator’s path that I can’t help feel its missing an opportunity to take a fresh approach like Bohemian Coding did with Sketch. From when you first launch Affinity Designer and create a new document you can tell that they’re going after Adobe Creative Cloud with their trio of apps aimed replacing Illustrator, Photoshop (Affinity Photo) and InDesign (Affinity Publisher). Do you fancy trying a new OS X Vector Illustration app? An upstart called Affinity Designer is out and even though it’s a first version beta, it already looks like a good competitor to Adobe Illustrator.
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