Perfect, Scalable Certificate Borders
FontBros.com’s Certified Family is a collection of 15 fonts that let you create beautiful ornate certificate borders that can be scaled to the correct thickness and shape to fit any size document or image area. To use them, you simply choose a font size for the “width” you need, then type a Corner character followed by a series of Side characters, then another Corner, etc. The set includes a PDF user manual with each that explains quick and easy methods to build a border using Certified. Below are some examples. Learn more about this $50 collection here.
Jeff Gamet is a contributing editor for Design Tools Monthly, the executive summary of graphic design news. He is also the morning editor and reviews editor for The Mac Observer and iPodObserver.com, and contributing writer for Layers Magazine and Photoshop User. He writes the InBrief column for InDesign Magazine, and is the author of “The Designer’s Guide to Mac OS X,” from Peachpit Press
When Jeff isn’t writing about the graphic design world, he’s talking about it on the Design Tools Weekly podcast with co-host Jay Nelson. He also talks about Apple and the Mac world every week on The Mac Observer’s Apple Weekly Report.
Jeff studies, tests and reviews new software and technologies for the Macintosh community as well as the design and print industries. He is a former Pre-press specialist, and has nearly 25 years experience with computer technology. Jeff trains, lectures and consults on techniques for more efficiently using Mac OS X in creative environments throughout the country.
In the rare moments when he can get away from his MacBook Pro, Jeff spends his time climbing and biking in the Colorado mountains.
