![]() So I stayed with my little RiscPC for as long as I could stand it (2000), and eventually I moved to the Mac with the first white iBook. The technology is still great, but it was mangled through so much marketing hotchpotch (just look at the current website) and windows interface paradigms, that it's quite a mess. It went on to be PC only as Xara, then was bought by Corel to become CorelXara and later Xara again. Sadly even before the demise of Acorn, this package was discontinued (interestingly over the lack of a great C++ compiler). Their raw speed, live-antialiasing, and simple direct manipulation interface (as far as I know this is where the now standard direct line for gradients came from). What blew me away though, was Computer Concepts's Vector graphics package, ArtWorks. It was put to great use in the desktop publishing and word processing products on that platform, which were way ahead of the curve for a very long time. This includes a data format, as well as anti aliased vector fonts. RiscOS, its operating system, has system wide vector graphics support. I started out using CorelDraw on Windows 3.1 in the early nineties, which introduced me to the subject, but otherwise was not a great experience.Īfter my short Windows/PC exposure I took the rather unusual turn to the Acorn Archimedes and Acorn RiscPC. Vector graphics and system support thereof have been dear to my heart since the beginning of my personal computing time. Tl dr: I like vector graphics, I hate most vector packages, I've used an Acorn for far too long and Affinity makes me very happy. One sore spot is, that the "global color" feature is missing from the iPad version currently, which I tend to utilize a lot to be able to adjust my color schemes after the fact. However, with the symbol feature, pixel preview, export persona, layer effects, easy grouping and masking, great bezier tools, it is an powerful template for me already. Note the v1 as I probably haven't used all the features to the max yet, and I might update that here. I created this hopefully helpful artboard (which has the examples as turned off layers in them) for your free use: Monkeydom iOS App Icon Template v1.afdesign I intentionally put in a more nostalgic icon with more details to have more variance. It took me just few hours to produce them, all on iPad and half of it on a train ride. In case you were wondering, these are already the result as nice SVG export. My test subjects were the following 3 icons: So of course I wanted to try if this works nicely on the iPad as well. I have been using the desktop version for a while to produce nice app icons for my own prototype projects. I immediatly put it for a spin, and it is really fantastic. Last week marked a big milestone for the fantastic people at Serif - the release of Affinity Designer for iPad. Affinity Designer iOS App Icon Template and my Love of Vector Graphics
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