Jay Nelson | PLANET QUARK

Adios Script Pro

February 28, 2014February 23, 2014FontNo Comments

Alejandro Paul’s Adios is a technically intricate font bursting with advanced OpenType features. It’s easily my favorite advanced OpenType font.

Inspired by lettering artist H. Wotzkow, not to mention contemporary tattoo art, Adios has a profusion of ornamental ascenders and descenders that allow extraordinary variety. The lowercase “h” alone offers 43 variants; the entire font has a staggering 1,470 glyphs.

Watch the slideshow of amazing examples in use at www.veer.com/ideas/galleries/adios/

Jay Nelson

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 writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.

http://www.design-tools.com

Victorian Engravings

February 28, 2014February 23, 2014WebsiteNo Comments

www.Artzooks.com includes the Visual Language collection in its collection of premium clip art.

Visual Language includes more than 1,000 extremely detailed illustrations from the early 1900s. Subject matter includes plants, fruits and flowers, animals and human anatomy, machines and equipment, picture frames, mountains and landscapes, maps, holiday figures, etc. The collection is worth a look, if only for inspiration.

To find it, search for “Visual Language” and then uncheck “Photographs” under Image Type.

Jay Nelson

http://www.design-tools.com

Convert Fonts to Objects

February 27, 2014February 23, 2014Font, Software (other)No Comments

If you need an entire font converted to vector or raster objects, check out FontPestle. This handy app ($4.99, Mac App Store) exports every character from an OpenType or TrueType font to individual objects in PDF, PNG, TIFF, or GIF formats.

The app even includes 10 symbol fonts for you to convert as a starting point. Before exporting, you can customize fill, stroke, and background, and the resulting files can be shared with others from within the app.

Jay Nelson

http://www.design-tools.com

Royalty-Free Design Templates

February 27, 2014February 23, 2014Software (other), WebsiteNo Comments

Need to design a brochure, business card, letterhead, envelope, postcard, datasheet, flyer, or newsletter in a hurry? You can find artistic, original designs for affordable prices at Inkd: a growing community of designers and the businesses who need design work.

Each design comes with a royalty-free license and is fully customizable. Most files are Adobe InDesign or Illustrator, though Photoshop or QuarkXPress files are available upon request. If you can’t find a design you like, you can hire a designer on a freelance basis or make a special request.

When a print template is sold on Inkd, customers can contact the graphic designer directly for associated services such as helping to customize the template, development of a new corporate identity or designing a matching website. If you’re a print designer, you can sign up to be a contributor and receive royalties on each sale.

Prices range from $39 for a flyer or business card to $99 for a trifold brochure. For more information, visit www.inkd.com.

Jay Nelson

http://www.design-tools.com

Typophile!

February 27, 2014February 23, 2014WebsiteNo Comments

Way into fonts? Check out www.typophile.com. It has news about font events, font developers, books, free fonts, and enlightening discussions.

Jay Nelson

http://www.design-tools.com

Since October 18, 2018, QuarkXPress is available in the Mac App Store. It's called "QuarkXPress 2018 Pro". Read about the differences to QuarkXPress and what features it offers.
QuarkXPress 2018 October Update adds a "dark theme" on MacOS to seamlessly integrate with Mojave's Dark Mode.
Quark Software announced on September 17th a new software bundle offer that will save designers Read more
The (free) QuarkXPress 2018 October Update will add Mojave support and adds an "auto fit image" feature. Additionally you can "fill", so fill a box with an image. Both can be done manually (command key) or automatically, so even when you resize the box.
Design on your iPad wherever you are with DesignPad, the iPad app that puts grid-based design control in the palm of your hand. No need to own InDesign or QuarkXPress. New 2018 version available now!
Automatic hyphenation is an important tool to help you make text look good. See how QuarkXPress 2018 can help you create even better hyphenation with the new strictness level. Of course available for many languages, like Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and more.
Due to popular demand, the first update for QuarkXPress 2018 adds back the font sub menus on MacOS. The free update further adds new JavaScript methods and further improves stability, quality and performance.