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Fantastic Fonts for Book Covers
Typography can make or break a book cover design. The extensive variety of typography on covers is mind-boggling - from conservative serifs to charmingly handwritten typefaces. Book cover typography has never looked so good.
If...
The 10 Best Free Fonts for Architects
From modernist sans serifs to contemporary serif typefaces, make sure your type looks as elegant as your plans with these exceptionally stylish free fonts for architecture portfolios, architect branding and architectural presentations.Did we mention...
PREMIUM: Restaurant Template Kit
InDesignSkills' new Restaurant Template Kit contains a complete range of agency-standard InDesign templates for restaurants, cafes, bars, hotels and other hospitality businesses. The templates can also be used for dinner events, weddings, festivals and...
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5 Typography Rules All Designers Should Know
New to the world of Typography? Designers swear by these five go-to rules for keeping their typography looking tip-top.
From adding optical margin alignment to adjusting tracking, here...
How to Export InDesign Documents as PDFs
Once you've finished creating a document in Adobe InDesign, you'll want to export it to a more useful format, which then can be printed, emailed or posted...
Quick Tip: How to Fix Overset Text in InDesign
If you’re seeing a little ‘+’ symbol at the bottom of a text frame, or getting an error warning when you come to export your InDesign file,...
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The Best Free Fonts for 2021
New year, new fonts! From curvy retro serifs to perfectly minimal sans serifs, you don’t need to stretch the...
The 2021 Graphic Design and Illustration Trends to Know Now
After a tumultuous year for the design community and the world as a whole, there’s never been a greater...
The Best Free Fonts for Children’s Books
Designing a children's book or a poster, website or app aimed at little ones? It can be difficult to...
Go InDesign Pro in 5 Days!
InDesign Skills was made to give budding and experienced designers alike the inspiration and resources to improve their graphic...
The Best Free Serif Fonts
Serif fonts bring sophisticated style to any project. These beautiful serif fonts balance tradition with contemporary elegance, and are...
Peggy Tuttle – February 2020’s Featured Designer
We’re thrilled to introduce you to our first featured designer, Peggy Tuttle!Creative director and designer Peggy Tuttle co-founded Tuttle...
How to Create Invisible Text Wraps in InDesign
In this quick and easy-to-follow tutorial we’ll expand on the basics of using the Text Wrap function in Adobe...
Timeless Typefaces: The Classic Fonts Every Designer Should Own
Out with the new, in with the old? Every designer needs an arsenal of tried-and-tested typefaces that work for...
The 2020 Creative Trends to Know Now
With the new year just around the corner, it’s time to familiarise yourself with the graphic design, illustration, branding...
The Beginner’s Guide to Types of Image File
Confused about JPEGs versus PNGs? Mystified by GIFs or TIFFs?
Fear not! Read on for your straightforward guide to types...
The Best Free Fonts for Logos & Branding: Part Two
On the hunt for the perfect font for your logo or branding project? Free fonts don't have to be...
The Best Free Fonts for Logos & Branding: Part One
Tracking down the perfect font for your logo or brand design project can be difficult. Finding a free logo...
The 10 Most Beautiful Italics Fonts
A truly beautiful and functional italics font can be difficult to track down. As most font sites preview regular...
How to Make a Zine in Adobe InDesign
Zines, self-published mini magazines, are a fresh and exciting way to present photos, illustrations or ideas. Here we’ll look...
2019 Graphic Design Trends You Need to Know
In our annual trend report we present our predictions for the biggest graphic design trends for the year ahead.
These...
InDesign Tutorials | 10 Things You Can Create With InDesign
If you're new to InDesign, or feeling stuck in a rut with creating the same sorts of items, this...
The Top 10 Free Fonts on Fonts.com
Fonts.com isn't necessarily the first place you'd go to to find free fonts. But if you know where to...
How to Create Stylish Magazine Pull Quotes
Pull quotes are a great technique for drawing attention to key items of text on a layout, and are...
The 10 Best Free Fonts on Font Squirrel
Font Squirrel is a great resource for finding free commercially licensed fonts. But there's no need to spend hours...
The Most Popular Standard Book Sizes in the US and UK
Confused about which size you should opt for when designing your book? Although books can be printed in a...
5 Typography Rules All Designers Should Know
New to the world of Typography? Designers swear by these five go-to rules for keeping their typography looking tip-top.
From...
How to Export InDesign Documents as PDFs
Once you've finished creating a document in Adobe InDesign, you'll want to export it to a more useful format,...
How to Create a Botanical Wedding Invite in InDesign
Romantic botanical styles are one of our favorite wedding stationery trends here at InDesignSkills.
But there’s no need to splash...
What are Widows and Orphans?
They might sound a tad Dickensian, but ‘widows’ and ‘orphans’ are actually terms designers use to describe unwanted stray...