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Part of the development for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6, we did a lot of work around fonts and typography with advanced OpenType features support. We developed a tool internally that helps find out what features are available within a given font. Claude, from the CorelDRAW R&D team posted that FontTesterPlus...
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Today we're going to take a slight departure from our normal look at a font. Instead, we'll look at the art of typography. CorelDRAW users haven't always gotten formal design training and so they don't understand all the nuances of typography. How to Understand Typography Like a Professional...
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The blog “ How-To Geek ” recently posted a great overview / introduction about typography. It covers everything from the history, to the terminology and the different types / usage recommendations. I highly recommend you read it: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/30065/how-to-understand-typography-like...
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By Steve Bain These days, there's no excuse for churning out plain-looking text layouts. Using recent versions of CorelDRAW, there are so many ways you can make text more interesting to read, it's a shame not to take advantage of them. Let's explore a few tricks that you can use with paragraph...
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Thu, Apr 9 2009
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By Steve Bain
CorelDRAW provides powerful resources for creating custom logotype, symbol, or character designs. Discover how easily you can turn your design into a digital font you can use in any text-capable application in this continuation of my 2-part tutorial on creating custom fonts.
As I mentioned...
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Going through mymy regular blogs, I saw a post from Lifehacker about the periodic table typefaces (original posted on Download Squad ) which I wanted to share. It is about a 3150 by 2100 jpeg file (1.6Mb download) that the design firm Squidspot put together with a reference chart of the most popular...
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By Steve Bain The challenge of tackling your own font design can be daunting without the right tools. Fortunately, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite has everything you need to design your own custom logotype font or typeface design.
It’s no small wonder that typing a few words gives you the ability to communicate...
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Sat, Mar 7 2009
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Filed under: coreldraw, fonts, design, illustration, symbols, Advanced, CorelDraw tutorials, Typography, Vector tools, Export TTF, Font Design, Font template
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I recently came across a fun typography related web site called Wordle . According to the site, it " is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds...
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By Steve Bain
In part 1 of this 2-part tutorial, we learned how to create the illusion of chiseled effects in CorelDRAW using very basic shapes. Now we’ll explore how to work with more complex shapes. We’ll also reveal how to add realistic color schemes to simulate various lighting levels...
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Sun, Dec 28 2008
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Chiseled graphics emulate the look of 3D shapes. In this tutorial, you learn a technique to create graphics that appear either raised or recessed. Your success will depend on your object's shape, your skill at node editing and path commands, and your imagination.
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Sat, Dec 20 2008
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I just received a copy of the Helvetica DVD . This is, to quote the web site, "a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation...