InDesignSecrets Podcast 307

InDesign Secrets

• 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

Adobe MAX 2023 speakers 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/