Designer Persona – embracing the control and precision of a powerful vector workflow

Affinity Designer's main or default Persona is the Designer Persona. It's the Persona you will see when you first open up the application. It's the Persona where you will create and edit all of your vector artwork. The tools and options presented in this Persona are geared toward a drawing-based workflow, and these vector tools and options are only available in the Designer Persona:

Figure 2.7 – Designer Persona icon in the toolbar

Designer Persona workflow

Unless you're strictly creating a raster painting piece, the chances are the Designer Persona is the place where you'll start creating most of your project's basic shapes and elements. The toolset includes a variety of creation and editing options for just about any shape you can think of. This is also where you can add or remove artboards or place an external image or a sketch...