Affinity: Why Your Document Setup Decides Everything

Before you start designing in Affinity, the way you set up your document quietly shapes everything that follows. Let’s build the foundation for your brand identity and understand how these early decisions influence everything you make later.

This video is part of a complete brand identity course to help you build confidence in Affinity. Along the way, I’ll share insights and workflows designers use to solve creative problems. Each lesson stands on its own, but together the series forms a start-to-finish project full of real-world design practice. We’ll create a professional logo, develop a visual identity system with supporting graphics and layouts, refine typography, and prepare print-ready files for production.

Chapters in this video:
00:00 a little forethought goes a long way
01:30 navigation & ergonomics
04:57 setting up a document
11:29 custom page sizes
14:02 ink color swatch setup
20:19 font file setup

All the videos in the course:

Links
Get the Raleway font files: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Raleway
How to install fonts in Windows: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/learning-center/how-to-install-fonts-on-your-pc
How to install fonts in Mac OS: https://support.apple.com/guide/font-book/install-and-validate-fonts-fntbk1000/mac

Attributions:
“Swing Haven 8” by Reed Mathis: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2lHxFyHL96NPhdU9XyXnPQ
“Silly Snickerdoodle: by Joel Cummins: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKgGBUFCIZjmC-Lqy8kmJ5w
Heidleberg Speedmaster 2-color by Romain Salomon: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Offset_press_2_color.jpg
Orange spot inking Heidelberg 1-color: Photo by AI25.Studio Studio from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/hand-of-man-working-with-printing-tools-using-machinery-6620997/
CMYK image by loenaranjo1 on Pixabay
Hydraulic guillotine by TextPartner: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krajarka_do_papieru.jpg
Cat CMYK screen by Yamo74, CC BY-SA 4.0:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cmyk_AM_screen.png

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