Author: 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.

Adios Script Pro

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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/

Victorian Engravings

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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.

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Convert Fonts to Objects

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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.

Royalty-Free Design Templates

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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.

Typophile!

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