Change Your Text Defaults!

Thu, Feb 14, 2008

In U&lc Online, Ilene Strizver wrote a helpful article about changing the default text settings in QuarkXPress and InDesign. I think her recommendations are terrific.

One addition I would make to her story is to suggest that you change the default Small Caps setting in QuarkXPress from to 85% high and 95% wide. This makes them look slightly thicker, more closely matching the weight of the tall caps. Try it and you’ll see what I mean. You can change those defaults under QuarkXPress> Preferences> Document> Character (Mac) or File> Preferences> Document> Character (Win).

Change Your Text Defaults

The result looks like this:

Change Your Text Defaults

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Jay Nelson - who has written 864 posts on Planet Quark.

Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay has a monthly Fonts column in Macworld, writes for several other publications and speaks at industry events.

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