r/AffinityDesigner

I created a character style specifically so I could capture and re-apply a nice color I had inadvertently come up with while designing my front cover. I want to use the same color of text on the rather long blurb on my back cover. The blurb is already there, but now I want to change the color of the text to match the same color of the text on my front cover.

I thought I could do this, after creating the character style based on the text with the desired color characteristic, highlighting the target text that makes up my blurb, by applying the style I just created.

But nowhere do I find the option to "apply style" under the text menu. There's a "re-apply style" but that's not what I want and choosing that option automatically applies some style I've never seen before and certainly is not the one I just created.

So what am I missing? I haven't put blood into trying to figure this out yet, but I've put sweat and tears. I need help. If anyone can give me this help, I thank you.

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This is for doing the spine of a book cover. I figured out how to manually rotate my text box, but I either over or under shoot the 90 degree mark by a degree or so. I've tried over and over, but I can't get it to exactly 90 degrees.

I know there must be a way that does not rely on manual dexterity, but I just have not been able to find it/figure it out.

Thanks in advance for any help anyone has on this.

If you've been seeing that pixel stretch effect all over the place and wondering how it's done, this tutorial breaks it down step by step in Affinity. Pretty easy to follow!