Have you been hoping to try your hand at lettering in Affinity Designer? With the rise of this vector graphics editor, more designers are flocking towards it for all things design. Though lettering may not be its primary function, its increasing popularity has prompted designers to create a range of Affinity Lettering brushes. To get you started, we’ve rounded up the 17 best Affinity Designer lettering brushes.

In this article you will find the best Affinity Lettering Brushes:

1. Letter Builder – For Affinity
2. Glitter and Foil Kit for Affinity Designer
3. Drawing Brushes For Affinity
4. Fade & Shade Brushes & Tutorials for Affinity
5. Multi-Color Mixed Paint Affinity Brushes
6. Affinity Ink Brushes
7. Chalk Dust Brush Kit For Affinity
8. Pencils and Paint Kit for Affinity Designer
9. Rough & Raw – Affinity Brushes
10. Fineliner Type Decorator’s Tool Kit – Affinity

1. Letter Builder – For Affinity

Presenting Letter Builder, an amazing tool allowing you to draw consistent letter-forms with more ease than ever!

With Letter Builder we focused on a common lettering problem, consistency in our letterforms. As lettering artists we want to maintain size, width, thickness and style throughout a word. So we designed a number of letter grids that give you the basic form of each letter of the uppercase alphabet so you can spend more time giving the letters your own unique finesse. That’s right, using Letter Builder, drawing the outlines of Serif and Sans Serif letters consistently has never been easier!

Whether you are a lettering artist designing quotes, a type designer and want to create a full alphabet, or a calligrapher and use as a guide sheet, we care about every aspect of your design process and aim to make it better and easier with each one of our products so that you have more headspace for your creativity.

Letter Builder - For Affinity
Letter Builder - For Affinity

Letter Builder – For Affinity

Included in this set:

  • 8x grid brushes
  • 8x Adobe Illustrator scatter grid brushes
  • 8x Adobe Illustrator grid symbols
  • How to draw each style A to Z .PDFs
  • Installation instructions for each app

2. Glitter and Foil Kit for Affinity Designer

Create authentic glitter and foil designs on the iPad with ease using this sparkling kit for Affinity Designer!

Perfect for Affinity Lettering artists, this kit is packed to the brim with versatile resources to make your designs shimmer & shine (without covering the floor with tiny specks of glitter you’re still finding 2 years later)!

The ‘effects’ brushes work both on their own or paired with the textures. A step-by-step tutorial is included showing the process of how to match your glitter and foil brushes & textures perfectly adding an extra layer of detail to your work. Then there’s the ‘confetti’ brushes. These allow you to quickly and easily paint random confetti to spruce up any design. The 11 shape stamps with distressed edges give you a great base to frame your work. And there’s 18 bonus floral brushes included too! These are highly detailed stamps that match perfectly with the other resources in this kit. They mask beautifully when stamped on the foil textures and bring a whole new meaning to the words ‘Gold Leaf’!

Glitter and Foil Kit for Affinity Designer
Glitter and Foil Kit for Affinity Designer

Glitter and Foil Kit for Affinity Designer

Included in this set:

  • 9 shimmering glitter textures
  • 16 shiny foil textures
  • 8 handy background textures
  • 16 effects brushes
  • 21 confetti brushes
  • 11 distressed edge shape brushes
  • Bonus 18 floral stamp brushes
  • Bonus color palette with 30 swatches

3. Drawing Brushes For Affinity

141 Raster and Vector brushes which look and feel just like real ink, charcoal, and graphite drawing tools.

Every brush in this set is modeled after a real-world drawing instrument. From Copic markers to number 2 pencils, you’re sure to find your favorite go-to tool for drawing (or find a new one!). The Vector brushes give illustrations unique lines and characteristics when applying an ink, charcoal, or graphite brush to any stroke. Alternatively, you can free-hand draw with the vector brush tool in Affinity Designer to create beautiful strokes you can go back and edit! Every brush is assigned a specific pressure profile to provide a unique feel while using a stylus/Apple pencil. The set can be imported into Affinity Designer (Pixel Persona) as well as Affinity Photo. The brush set works on both the desktop and mobile versions of Affinity Photo and Designer.

Drawing Brushes For Affinity
Drawing Brushes For Affinity

Drawing Brushes For Affinity

Included in this set:

  • 141 raster and vector brushes

4. Fade & Shade Brushes & Tutorials for Affinity

Introducing the finest brushes for adding textures to your creations!

Have you got Affinity Designer recently and you’d like to add a fantastic resource to it? Think no more! This brush set has been sampled out of real life textures and has been digitally manipulated to work as seamless patterns. They were made to add some realism and exotic touches to your illustrations and Affinity lettering artworks.

The set has been divided in 2 main parts, providing 10 Shading Brushes and 15 Texture Brushes. You will be able to add shadows smoothly with brushes that blend effortlessly and seamlessly. Give your artworks some charisma!

Additionally, we’ve included a Step-by-Step Lettering Tutorial made exclusively for use on Affinity Designer (both iPad & Desktop). You will learn our method on how to add textures and apply shadows to your letters. Plus, it’s super fun to follow!

Fade & Shade Brushes & Tutorials for Affinity
Fade & Shade Brushes & Tutorials for Affinity

Fade & Shade Brushes & Tutorials for Affinity

Included in this set:

  • 10 Shading Brushes
  • 15 Texture Brushes
  • Affinity Designer Workbook with 3 lettering tutorials
  • An easy-to-follow installation guide

5. Multi-Color Mixed Paint Affinity Brushes

Mix multiple colors in a single brush stroke with my innovative new painting system!

I’ve always loved the stunning results you can achieve when mixing multiple colors in wet paint and wished there was a way to create this eye-catching effect in Affinity designer… now there is! The Artifex Forge is proud to have created this handy and easy to use streaky paint tool kit – the first of its kind!

The pack is the culmination of a process of experimentation and planning that spanned two years; every brush stroke was laboured on and carefully scrutinized to ensure that the final effect is life-like and convincing.

Multi-Color Mixed Paint Affinity Brushes
Multi-Color Mixed Paint Affinity Brushes

Multi-Color Mixed Paint Affinity Brushes

Included in this set:

  • The Brush Styles – 21 easy-color paint brush strokes, packaged as styles.
  • A Quick Reference Guide – this will help you quickly find the right brushes for the task in hand.
  • An Example File – the cover type. Use this to see how I achieved the look.
  • Instructions – a very thorough guide on how to load, apply and then adjust the brushes is supplied.

6. Affinity Ink Brushes

A collection of ink brushes, washes and stamps for your illustrations and Affinity lettering work!

The set includes a total of 36 brushes and is divided into 3 different categories: regular brushes (for ink sketches and illustrations), ink washes, and ink stains stamps.

All these brushes were created from real China ink samples, that have been scanned and transformed into brushes, for a more realistic result. I’ve also added 5 paper textures as a bonus, that you can add as background for your artwork.

Affinity Ink Brushes
Affinity Ink Brushes

Affinity Ink Brushes

Included in this set:

  • 1 .AFBRUSHES file with the ink brushes & washes
  • 1 .AFBRUSHES file with the ink stamps
  • 1 .JPG swatches sheet
  • 6 bonus paper textures in .JPG format

7. Chalk Dust Brush Kit For Affinity

The ChalkDust Lettering Kit for Affinity Designer features everything you need to create your own stunning chalkboard pieces without getting yourself covered in white dust.

Ever since picking up the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil my favourite style of lettering has to be chalk, because of how creative you can be with the effect chalk gives you. This pack has been made using actual chalk textures to give the most realistic looking set of brushes that you’ll find for Affinity Designer. You also get a tips and tricks guide sheet to show you how to do things like shadows and shading and drawing elements like banners and floral elements.

Chalk Dust Brush Kit For Affinity
Chalk Dust Brush Kit For Affinity

Chalk Dust Brush Kit For Affinity

Included in this set:

  • 6 x Lettering Chalks
  • 7 x Chalk Effect Brushes
  • 2 x Bonus Script Brushes by hand letterer Stefan Kunz
  • 6 x Blackboards (JPGs)
  • Brush installation .PDF guide
  • Tips and Tricks .PDF sheets
  • 3 Example Alphabets .PDF to inspire your work

8. Pencils and Paint Kit for Affinity Designer

Create high-impact paint streaked lettering on the iPad with this texture kit for Affinity Designer!

This kit contains over 100 vibrant textures to bring color and energy to your designs and lettering work. Authentically sourced from real art materials these textures will save you hours of changing colors for each stroke or searching for that perfect brush to achieve a realistic result.

You only have to scroll Instagram to see how popular streaky paint lettering is. Rather than trying to replicate each individual paint stroke, this pack allows you to create this striking effect with these ready-to-go textures!

There’s also 5 artistic style Affinity brushes and 5 splatter brushes for extra realism. And if you like the vibrancy of the textures, you’ll love to hear there’s also two color palettes containing 40 swatches.

The paint textures work on both dark and light backgrounds. Because of the highly textured nature of pencils, separate assets are supplied for use on a light background as well as dark to give you maximum flexibility.

Pencils and Paint Kit for Affinity Designer
Pencils and Paint Kit for Affinity Designer

Pencils and Paint Kit for Affinity Designer

Included in this set:

  • 61 x hi-res paint streak textures (warm and cool colors)
  • 28 x hi-res pencil textures (made for dark colored backgrounds)
  • 30 x hi-res pencil textures (made for light colored backgrounds)
  • 5 x artistic brushes for Affinity
  • 5 x paint splatter effect brushes for Affinity
  • Bonus 2 x backgrounds (black and white paper textures)
  • Bonus 2 x color palettes (40 swatches)

9. Rough & Raw – Affinity Brushes

Our best selling Brush Set now for lettering on Affinity! You know what that means right? You’ll be able to use them not just on your iPad but on your Desktop as well!

This set of Brushes will help you give a unique handmade touch and a rough edge to your artworks. They work great for creating all kinds of illustrations and especially on lettering pieces.

All our brushes are created from real life textures that provide a handmade touch to your art. Rough & Raw has been divided in two parts – 7 line brushes and 7 texture brushes. With this set you’ll be able to go from sketching, inking and adding the final textures smoothly.

Rough & Raw – Affinity Brushes
Rough & Raw – Affinity Brushes

Rough & Raw – Affinity Brushes

Included in this set:

  • 7 line brushes
  • 7 texture brushes
  • An easy-to-follow installation guide.

10. Fineliner Type Decorator’s Tool Kit – Affinity

Transform tired text into beautiful, hand-drawn typography on Affinity!

Building on the popular Fineliner Brushes and Patterns Pack, this tool kit uses the same aesthetic but has been carefully tailored to the particular needs of hand-lettering. I developed the text effects and brushes together to ensure that they work in harmony and therefore achieve amazing results for you every time.

So, add a flourish to your food branding; stippling to your stationary; emphasis to your favourite inspirational quotation; and make your wedding stationary catch every eye!

If you’re new to using styles and brushes, don’t worry, thorough usage instructions are included.

Fineliner Type Decorator’s Tool Kit – Affinity
Fineliner Type Decorator’s Tool Kit – Affinity

Fineliner Type Decorator’s Tool Kit – Affinity

Included in this set:

  • The Text Effects  A whole load of amazingly authentic patterns and effects have been bundled together into one-click styles. Use these to transform your text instantly and easily! Layer them up and combine them with the other elements.
  • The Vector Brushes  Over 40 decorative brushes were specifically designed to work in harmony with the text effects. There’s everything from banners and bunting to foliage and floral flourishes. For use in the Designer/Vector Persona.
  • The Stipple shading Brushes  Two stippling brushes are also included – these are raster brushes for the Pixel persona.
  • A Quick Reference Guide  This will help you quickly find the right brushes and text effects for the task in hand.
  • Instructions  A very thorough guide is supplied.

11. 44 Vector Brushes for Affinity Designer

44 brushes for Affinity Designer sampled from real brush strokes!

These brushes were created by scanning real brush strokes made with flat and a round brush and scanned at 1200 dpi to keep the quality as high as possible.

They are perfect for adding some texture to your vector art, create various patterns and textures, creating abstract painted backgrounds or even use them to create flat brush stroke lettering in Affinity. You can also use them as individual elements in your designs. All brushes can be further customized in terms of brush settings once loaded into Affinity Designer.

44 Vector Brushes for Affinity Designer
44 Vector Brushes for Affinity Designer

44 Vector Brushes for Affinity Designer

Included in this set:

  • 44 vector brushes that you can load into Affinity Designer
  • .AFDESIGN file with individual vector brush shapes
  • .AFDESIGN Bonus pre-made patterns (A4 size)
  • Bonus 2 .PNG textures (4000×4000 px)
  • Help file for installing the brushes in Affinity Designer and Affinity Designer for iPad

12. Chunky Markers – Affinity Brushes

Marker pen brushes that really capture the smear and swipe of the real thing!

I’m proud to release one of my most authentic vector brush packs yet – Chunky Markers. So, now you can create convincing marker pen artwork in Affinity Designer with ease. Why not expand your digital tool kit and give marker art a go? You could even try doing a bit of digital hand-lettering!

Over 300 real brush stroke samples were created and only the best ones were selected for this pack. Hours were spent testing different markers on varied surfaces to get the look just right, and the result is the most realistic looking vector marker set available.

Chunky Markers – Affinity Brushes
Chunky Markers – Affinity Brushes

Chunky Markers – Affinity Brushes

Included in this set:

  • The Brushes – 34 realistic marker pen brushes – all sampled from the real thing. These include: standard chunky markers, slanted, messy and thin brushes – perfect for a wide range of creative tasks.
  • Example File – the pirate image has been supplied – use this to backwards engineer and see how I created it.
  • Instructions – a very thorough guide on how to load, apply and then adjust the brushes is supplied.

13. Freestyler – Brushes For Affinity

I used to find it hard to produce individual pieces of art that contained lots of different lettering styles combined with quirky doodle elements, so I took time to practice and produce a resource to enable others to do this quickly and easily and, more importantly, to have fun while doing it.

This Affinity lettering pack combines a mixture of brushes such as outline, 3D, flat, monoline, texture, and pattern. Giving you unique styles with little effort but a powerful impact. Some brushes will create a look as soon as you start drawing with them, whilst others I will guide you through the process with the included user manual.

Freestyler – Brushes For Affinity
Freestyler – Brushes For Affinity

Freestyler – Brushes For Affinity

Included in this set:

Pencil Sketch Brush to get your ideas down!

  • Slipstream Monoline (Standard, Outline & 3D)
  • Riptide Brush Script (Standard, Outline & 3D)
  • Roughneck (Monoline, Taper & Detail)
  • SloppyJoe (Monoline, Taper & Detail)
  • Unique 3 (Rock + Roller, High Five & Broken Arrow)
  • Pattern (Pinboard, Spray Can, Confetti, Milky Way)
  • Liner (Flight Path, Rain Maker, Bread Crumbs, Super Star)
  • Smudgy Wingman Paper Plane!
  • Bonus Pack
  • In-depth user manual

14. Classic Chalk – Affinity Brushes

A huge selection of authentic chalk vector brushes, sourced from the real thing!

Chalk as a medium has just so many uses – for illustrations, menu boards, hand lettering and as a learning aid in the classroom. This set of authentically detailed, digital chalk brushes is no different!

You have probably come across other vector chalk sets, so what makes this one so special?

Sourced from Real Chalk Textures – being sourced from actual chalk makes these as realistic as a vector chalk set can get – offering you the quality, realism and naturalness you’ve come to expect from an Artifex Forge brush set.

A huge variety of Strokes Included – I spent hours playing and experimenting with the different types of marks that can be made using chalks. I also looked at loads of chalk art as a reference as I created the pack.

Classic Chalk – Affinity Brushes
Classic Chalk – Affinity Brushes

Classic Chalk – Affinity Brushes

Included in this set:

  • The Brushes – 74 Authentic Chalk Texture Brushes.
  • Instructions – A very thorough guide on how to load, apply and then adjust the brushes is supplied.

15. Crayon Brushpack for Affinity

We’re excited to introduce the Crayon Brushpack for Affinity!

These brushes will give you a feeling of using some cool Crayola Markers on your iPad. Developed these brushes with real strokes of a Crayola Marker. All brushes are pressure sensitive and turn out great in some other colors, too.

Crayon Brushpack for Affinity
Crayon Brushpack for Affinity

Crayon Brushpack for Affinity

Included in this set:

  • 5 Unique Crayon Brushes

16. Marker Bois for Affinity

We’re excited to introduce the Marker Bois for Affinity.

This brush pack contains 6 brushes with some fancy shadows. All of them imitate these markers you like for lettering on different surfaces. By drawing out each letter you give more or less texture, depending on what you want to see.

Marker Bois for Affinity
Marker Bois for Affinity

Marker Bois for Affinity

Included in this set:

  • 6 Fancy Marker Brushes

17. 5 Ribbon Affinity Stamp Brushes

This is the perfect Brush Set if you don’t know how to draw Ribbons or just want to save time!

Add beautiful and delicate Ribbons to your illustrations and lettering art even if you don’t know how to draw them!

No matter if you’re new to drawing Ribbons or if you have been drawing them for years, this toolkit was thoughtfully designed to help you save time!

Finish your illustrations and lettering artworks in half the time!

5 Ribbon Affinity Stamp Brushes
5 Ribbon Affinity Stamp Brushes

5 Ribbon Affinity Stamp Brushes

Included in this set:

  • 5 Ribbon Stamp Brushes for Affinity
  • What if I don’t have Affinity? Don’t worry, all these Ribbons come as well named and ready to use .PNG Files with a Transparent Background.
  • You’ll also find all the Stamp Ribbons as a .PSD File, so you can decide where you feel more comfortable and start coloring some awesome ribbons!

17 Best Affinity Lettering Brushes

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