Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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One of the many advantages you’ll enjoy as an Affinity Designer user is the ease of use when it comes to creating swatches, whether it be from images or custom selections. Not only that, but Affinity Designer allows you to save swatches, export swatches for use on other machines, and you can even import swatches from Adobe Illustrator. In this tutorial we’ll be going over how you can do all of these things.

If you want to learn more about logo design, be sure to check out my Logo Design Academy - an interactive 18-part video course where you will learn my entire creative process for coming up with logo ideas and implementing them: logosbynick.com/learn

Intro song: "In Da Mood" by Combustibles, used with written permission