Developer Savage Interactive todayannounceda major update toProcreatethat brings sought-after text manipulation features to the powerful iPad-only illustration app.
Procreate 4.3’s new Text feature allows you to import fonts and bring advanced typography to your illustrations and designs. The app lets you use any standard font in iOS, in addition to the three typefaces it ships with (you’re able to drag and drop fonts to add them to your library).
Typesetting supports precision design controls like kerning, leading and baseline.
The guiding principle of Procreate is to preserve the natural feeling of drawing and painting above all else. Savage has re-imagined Text tailored to an illustration mindset and integrated into the multi-touch environment as smoothly as the rest of Procreate’s tools. It’s powerful enough for professionals, yet simple enough for everyone to use.
Zooming, typing, moving or warping text, as well as manipulating complex magazine-like layouts, is a joy thanks to Procreate’s low-overhead Metal-based graphics acceleration.
Here are the other features that the Metal-powered engine makes possible, like applying environmental text on surfaces that may be angled, curved or uneven.
The warp and transform capabilities of the Text tool let you seamlessly incorporate complex environmental text into illustrations with ease. Text remains in vector format when warping and transforming and only rasterizes once changes are committed, leading to sharper results without the rough pixelation common in other programs.
The update includes other improvements and tidbits.
A new Layer Export option allows you to save layers as as a folder of web-ready PNG files or multiple pages in a PDF document. Another cool addition, Export to GIF, lets you export your creations as frames of a looping animated GIF, with frame rates ranging from 0.1 to 60 frames per second and optional background transparency.
Other tidbits include additional blending modes, improved pressure smoothing for supported styli, plus speed improvements and bug fixes.
Here’s a quick overview of everything new and improved in Procreate 4.3:
