March 2018
Designing on a diagonal grid
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Extreme drop caps
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Using the Illustrator Touch Type tool
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Working with pull quotes
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Golden ratio
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April 2018
Cropped type: Working with large abstract letters
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Creating a word search
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Working with OpenType alternates
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Color fonts
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Working with picture fonts
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May 2018
Controlling text flow with span and split columns
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Designing with variable type
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Creating alternating color jazz type
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June 2018
Five steps to well-justified text
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Text wrap effects
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Creating a text highlight with padding
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Optical type sizing
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July 2018
Creating info boxes
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Using warp effects in Illustrator
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Working with transparency
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Tips for working with script typefaces
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August 2018
Measurement tips: Five reasons you should use points
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Using the Chartwell font
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Optically aligning a book cover title
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Five tips to better tables
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September 2018
Convey inclusion with connected type
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Create a listings page
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Creating a listicle with auto-numbered drop caps
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Creating an extruded shadow in Illustrator
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October 2018
An InDesign Baseline Grid Tip
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Creating offset outlines in Illustrator
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Photographing Type
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An Illustrator text warping tip
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November 2018
Five reasons to use the Story Editor
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Sans Forgetica
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Designing a minimalist calendar
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Representing opposites through negative space
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December 2018
Metrics vs. optical kerning
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Autogenerated captions
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Minimalist type with the Live Paint Bucket
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January 2019
Tips for typesetting poetry
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Align the first baseline only
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Optical vertical centering
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February 2019
Applying fractions with a grep style
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Using invisible paragraph rules on chapter opening pages
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Using Optical Margin Alignment
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March 2019
Spacing of items in a bulleted list
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Tracking tips
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Adding flush spaces
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Syncing type area with baseline grid increment
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April 2019
Creating mirrored folios
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Using a no-break character style
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Spacing type around a circle
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Monospace type
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Creating object styles for captions
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May 2019
Splitting and breaking stories
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Adding a shaded shadow
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Adding non-printing line numbers
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Fast formatting and text clean up
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June 2019
Knockout text
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Use conditional text to make teacher and student versions
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Highlight spaces in justified type
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July 2019
Fine-tuning spacing in a text block
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Multicolumn frames and threaded frames
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Creating an illustrated lyric using Live Paint
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The Glyphs panel
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August 2019
Combining type and images in an abstract poster
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"Nut" or stacked fractions
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The resolution of Photoshop type
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All you ever wanted to know about placeholder text
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September 2019
Creating movie poster credits
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Creating a vintage magazine cover
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Working with character styles at relative sizes
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Creating a travel book cover
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October 2019
Create a simple 3D type effect
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Putting type around a figure 8 or any overlapping path
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Shaping text with the Illustrator Touch Type tool
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Creating an ASCII text portrait
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November 2019
Creating hand-inked text in Photoshop and Illustrator
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Working with text frames in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop
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Creating abstract letterforms with the Illustrator Blend tool
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Blending letters with the Illustrator Blend tool
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December 2019
Handling prepositions in title treatments
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Typesetting a quote
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Looking for the word within
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Professional typography in Microsoft Word
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January 2020
Numbers in circles
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BLOKK
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Stroke
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February 2020
Spacing after a headline
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Typographic map
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Ornaments
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Word spacing
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March 2020
Catchwords
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Text wrap spacing
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Infographic
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April 2020
Leveraging the power of text frame object styles
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Create a Victorian type poster
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Set up an uneven column grid in InDesign
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Create and alphabet from a single grid
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May 2020
Adding a rule either side of a header
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Zero-width characters
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Text highlighting with a custom edge
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June 2020
Design a visual table of contents
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Converting outlines to an editable font
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Create an environmental alphabet
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Avoid problems when copying InDesign text
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Create a simple text knockout
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July 2020
Designing a product guide
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Experiments with type and pattern
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Experiments with live transformations and Illustrator area type
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August 2020
Getting the most from discretionary liigatures
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Fixing kerning pairs with a GREP style
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Stackable 3D or chromatic fonts
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Creating a simple index in InDesign
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September 2020
Adding flourishes to type in Illustrator
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Creating shaped text
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The InDesign Hidden Characters font
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Using a dotless i
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October 2020
Automatic kerning methods in Illustrator
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Desert island type
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Using type in Illustrator for the iPad
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Giving trees a typographic voice
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November 2020
Illustrator clipping masks
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Glyph shifting with OpenType
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Align to glyph guides
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December 2020
Auto-size text frames
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Go bigger
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Further explorations with variable type
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Using perspective distort in Illustrator
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January 2021
Using column rules in InDesign
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Vertical justification in Illustrator
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February 2021
Calendar
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Creating water-damaged type in Fresco
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Word counts in InDesign
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March 2021
Create a kaleidoscope effect in Illustrator
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Using libraries to copy text between InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop
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Working with ultra-compressed type
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In praise of ampersands
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April 2021
Dealing with difficult drop caps
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The tilde key trick
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A simple spatter effect
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May 2021
Font height options in Illustrator
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Stencil lettering
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Using the Repeat Grid options in Illustrator
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The problem with InDesign Text Wrap and anchored objects
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June 2021
Hand-drawn type (using a mouse)
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Text flow recap
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Approaches to typographic hierarchy
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Setting the fine print
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July 2021
Display drop cap
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Create a stained glass effect in Illustrator
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Bendy columns in InDesign
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Movie credit alignment
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August 2021
Extend a picture with type
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Art Deco type shading
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Type, transparency, and vintage illustration
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Create a vintage fruit crate type treatment
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Set the visual size of type
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September 2021
Vertical Type and the Touch Type tool
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Convert type to an art brush
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Type and picture frames using the Shape Builder tool
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