Make a Focus leaflet in Affinity
Affinity is the free design app the party uses for leaflets. Start with the first lesson, which builds a bar chart and then a story with a headline, a photo and a caption. Every step shows you where the buttons are and what they look like.
Your ticks are saved on this device only. Every step has a box saying where each button is and what it looks like.
Find your way round the screen
This is roughly what Affinity looks like when you open a leaflet. Tap a number to see what that part is for.
Panels can be dragged about, so yours may sit in a slightly different place. Their names stay the same, and the name of any button appears when you hover over it.
What the buttons look like
The little drawings show roughly what to look for. They are sketches, not copies of the real buttons.
Bar chart sizes
Type in a real result. The helper gives you the width and height to type into Affinity for each bar, so the chart is in proportion.
Type these into the Transform panel
| Bar | W, mm | H, mm | Colour for print (CMYK) | Votes | Share |
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Keep it honest. Every bar starts from zero and is in proportion to the votes. If you stretch one by eye afterwards, it is no longer a true chart, and the other side will say so.
The official colours
These come from the party’s brand guidelines. Use the CMYK numbers for anything that will be printed and the hex code for anything on a screen. Tap a line to copy it.
Liberal Democrat colours
Other parties, for bar charts and head to heads
Save them once, use them for ever
Type
How a leaflet gets read
Most people give a leaflet a few seconds between the doormat and the recycling. ALDC’s Focus training lists what they look at, in this order. Tap each one.
The eye starts top left, runs along the top, cuts down across the page and finishes along the bottom. So put your name and headline at the top, your best photo on the way down, and what you want people to do at the bottom right.
What every Focus needs on it
Keep the design simple
Bleed, and exporting for the printer
A printer cannot print exactly to the edge of a sheet. They print on bigger paper and trim it. Bleed is the extra 3 mm of colour or photo that hangs over the edge, so a slightly wobbly trim never leaves a white sliver.