Episode
Ep. 327: Font Tricks
• Favorite Font Tricks • Interview with CreativePro’s Theresa Jackson • Obscure Feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color
Topics:
- Favorite font tricks
- Interview with Theresa Jackson
- InDesign 20.1
- Obscure feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color
News:
- 20.1 is in release rollout
- multi-find/change is now free
- Old (but still relevant!) InDesign Magazine articles, now on site:
- Designing Photo Albums in InDesign by Khara Plicanic
- Getting Started with GREP Styles in InDesign by Steve Caplin
- Working in Microsoft Word by Jamie McKee
- Designing with Type: Grunge, Punk, and Futurism by Nigel French
- InDesign Nightmares by David and Anne-Marie
Links:
Theresa Jackson:
Font Tricks:
- How to change the underlying default font for a document (see Don Ayer’s comment at end for an easier solution)
- OpenType text and text frame adornments
Obscure Feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color
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