Affinity Designer preferences

Affinity Designer has many ways for you to make the application both feel better and work better for you. You may be coming from another similar type of software and want to ease that transition by assigning familiar keyboard shortcuts. Or perhaps there is a certain workspace layout that enables you to work faster or more efficiently. In any case, Affinity Designer is well equipped to let you customize your user experience.

To locate Affinity Designer's application preferences, go to Affinity Designer | Preferences on a Mac or Edit | Preferences on a PC. Here, you will find a panel with eight separate areas to be able to make adjustments to.

We won't cover each and every preference here as there are far too many and some are truly best explored on your own. Following the list here, we will help you take a closer look at those that are most relevant to get you up and running with the application. This includes certain preferences that...