About the Typography panel
The Typography panel in Affinity apps expands text formatting options by supporting OpenType font features, enabling a higher level of text customization. Typography options depend on the font having the necessary glyphs to support them.
Settings
The following options are available:
- Ligatures—applies any available typeface ligatures to the selected text.
- Alternates—applies any available substitutes to the selected text.
- Stylistic Alternates—applies any available font-derived substitutes for superscripts and subscripts to the selected text.
- Swash—applies any available and more ornate alternative for a glyph.
- Stylistic Sets—applies any available (and often more flamboyant) style substitutes to the selected text.
- Figure Style—applies any available font-derived styles to superscripts and subscripts to the selected text.
- Figure Position—applies any available font-derived superscripts and subscripts positioning to the selected text.
- Capitals—applies options for dealing with how capital letters are presented in the selected text.
- Hide irrelevant features—collapses panel options not relevant to the selected text.