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title: Affinity Designer Template Guide
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# Affinity Designer Template Guide

This guide describes how to use the Affinity Designer template for Lucide.

## General Workflow

>Attention: By default, Affinity Designer sets the unit for stroke to points. Make sure that it is set to pixel. To do this, open `Preferences > User Interface`. Under `Decimal Places for Unit Types`, uncheck `Show Lines in points`.

1. Download and open the [Affinity Designer template](https://github.com/lucide-icons/lucide/blob/main/docs/public/templates/affinity_designer.aftemplate).
2. Follow the [Icon Design Principles](icon-design-guide.md) while you use the template (to ensure integrity with the Lucide icon pack).
3. Export the file as SVG (`File > Export`). Make sure that _Rastering_ is set to _Nothing_, _Export text as curves_ is checked (hopefully, you won't need this), _Use hex colors_ is checked, and _Flatten transforms_ is checked.

	 ![SVG export options in Affinity Designer](../images/affinity-designer-export-options.png?raw=true)
4. Optimize the exported SVG file further with [SVGOMG](https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/) or [`svgo`](https://github.com/svg/svgo) (using `svgo --multipass exported_icon.svg`).
