Episode 307
Podcast 307
• Contest Winners • Best Font Tips for InDesign • Obscure Feature: Ornaments
- In the news:
- Article Hunt contest winners
- Adobe MAX 2023, David and Anne-Marie are doing live sessions
- InDesign 18.3 is slowly being rolled out
- CreativePro Week, June 5-9 in Phoenix (and online)
- IGNITE CreativePro is back!
- Movie Night
- Design + Marketing Summit, July 27-28, online event
- CreativePro Magazine May 2023, issue 19: Virtual Photography, and lots of InDesign content
- Fonts in InDesign: Best practices and best tips
- Obscure Feature of the Week: Ornaments
Links mentioned in this podcast
Including ...
- Anne-Marie and David
- Angelo Montilla, who we interviewed in podcast episode 290
- Dax Castro, interviewed (with Chad Chelius) in podcast episode 292
- Erica Gamet, interviewed in podcast episode 226
Fonts:
- Great Fonts To Use:
- CreativePro Font Collection #1: https://creativepro.com/creativepro-font-collection-vol-1/
- Font Collection #2: https://creativepro.com/creativepro-font-collection-vol-2/
- Our awesome "InDesignSecrets Font Collection" on Adobe Fonts: https://fonts.adobe.com/collections/indesign-20
- Google Fonts: https://creativepro.com/using-google-fonts-indesign/
- Adobe Fonts: https://creativepro.com/using-adobe-fonts/
- Font Tools
- Astute Graphics Vector First Aid: https://astutegraphics.com/plugins/vectorfirstaid
- Justin's "Copy InDesign Fonts to Folder" script: https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2013/04/16/copy-indesign-fonts-to-folder/
- Identifying Fonts:
- What the Font: https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont
- How to identify fonts: https://creativepro.com/identifying-fonts/
- Glyphs panel:
- Learning about the Glyphs panel: https://creativepro.com/get-know-indesigns-glyphs-panel/
- Tips: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-glyphs-panel-display/
- Finding characters: https://creativepro.com/find-characters-using-the-glyphs-panel/
- Custom glyph sets: https://creativepro.com/working-with-custom-glyph-sets/
- Laura Worthington's Hummingbird font: https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/hummingbird
- Making Fonts:
- IndyFont: https://www.indiscripts.com/post/2012/06/indyfont-build-opentype-fonts-from-within-indesign
- If you have a LinkedIn Learning subscription: our video on IndyFont: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-secrets/055-making-a-font-with-indesign-using-the-indyfont-script?u=0
- FontSelf in Illustrator: https://creativepro.com/create-fonts-illustrator-cc-fontself/
- Installing Fonts:
- Document Fonts folder: https://creativepro.com/easy-font-activation-using-document-fonts/
- InDesign application's Fonts folder: https://creativepro.com/getting-indesign-to-see-your-fonts/
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