Tab Leaders (Part 1): Separating Columns of Text with Dots

Way back in Podcast 25 lis­ten­ers asked ques­tions about under­lin­ing text and cre­at­ing tab lead­ers. After hear­ing the same ques­tions recent­ly from col­leagues, I thought the top­ic was worth revis­it­ing. Vanessa …

Change Typefaces without Using the Mouse

Here’s a quick tip for chang­ing the font of text quick­ly in all ver­sions of InDesign and InCopy–and with­out ever touch­ing the mouse. Let’s begin by estab­lish­ing two facts: First, CMD+T/CTRL+T opens …

Change Measurement Systems on the Fly

You prob­a­baly already know that you can type into just about any of InDesign’s mea­sure­ment fields a val­ue based on any mea­sure­ment sys­tem InDesign under­stands. For instance, if the doc­u­ment uses …

Matching Portrait Head Sizes

When lay­ing out por­traits or head­shots close togeth­er, such as in a news­pa­per or mag­a­zine arti­cle or pub­li­ca­tions like mem­ber­ship direc­to­ries and year­books, the gold­en rule is that all pho­to subjects’ …

Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 4 December 2016

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke. Top 5 free tools for cre­at­ing info­graph­ics 3 Mindset shifts that will 10X …

Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 2 September 2016

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke. Readability Is Shutting Down, Here’s How to Export Your Bookmarks to Instapaper …

Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 25 August 2016

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke. 10 of the best places to live as a design­er 20 bril­liant WordPress …

Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 24 August 2016

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke. Is ‘mobile first’ lim­it­ing the poten­tial of inter­ac­tive sto­ry­telling? Identify Fonts in …