Over the years, we’ve heard dozens of clients express great fondness for PopChar — a handy pop-up utility that displays all the characters in a selected font. Click on any character to automatically insert it into your active text block ($30 shareware). A new Universal Binary version keeps the idea of the older versions, but […]

About once a month, a client will ask how to hang punctuation in Adobe InDesign CS. We’ve answered this same question dozens of times — yet I still find myself hunting around through menus to remember which dialog box contains the needed checkbox!

This tip covers hanging punctuation techniques in Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Freehand MX, and QuarkXPress.

Ever find yourself spending way too much time hunting through menus for an option you know is there somewhere? You know what it’s called but you just can’t find it. Here is one of those fun hidden tricks that works in Adobe InDesign CS/CS2. Hold down the right set of keys and click on any […]

Stumped for just that right phrase? Type in a term and watch as an interactive word map blossoms with meanings and branches to related words. Drag words around and play with them visually to engage a different part of your brain. Great for naming and branding projects.

Enough talk. Copywriter want link now: Visual Thesaurus.