macOS Tahoe Compatibility
QuarkXPress 2026 is compatible with the latest macOS® 26.x (Tahoe), macOS® 15.x (Sequoia), macOS® 14.x (Sonoma).
New Welcome Screen Experience! Plus, Customizable Workspace Setups
The Welcome Screen in QuarkXPress 2026 has had a fresh redesign. It’s easy to create new projects, find ready-to-use project size presets, use customized workspaces and quickly access built-in tutorials and useful resources.
Incredible Typographic Control with Variable Fonts
Precisely control your typography with Variable Fonts in QuarkXPress 2026 to enhance your creative freedom. With a single font file, you can adjust font characteristics like weight, width, slant, and more with intuitive sliders.
Simplify Advanced Mathematical Equations
Built-in support for LaTeX and MathML means you don’t need to rely on external tools or plugins for advanced mathematical equations. It’s perfect if you’re working in STEM or Academia, as you now have quick and accurate editing of math equations across print and digital formats right at your fingertips.
Have Precise Control and Creativity with The ‘Paste Into’ Feature
Create eye-catching layouts with the Paste Into feature, which gives you precise control and flexibility. Show your content creatively by masking images or grouping items through placing them inside container shapes.
Save Time by Applying Paper Colors
Preview Paper Colors whilst working on your designs and check the color contrast at the layout stage – saving you a ton of time from printing out mockups. Be consistent with your branding and enhance your workflow with IDML imports and exports.
Greater Design Accuracy with Enhanced Image Grids on Master Page Layouts
If your designing large-scale, multi-page documents like catalogs, lookbooks or event albums with heavy photo layouts, you don’t need to worry about the manual checks with Image Grids. It reduces effort and provides greater design accuracy.
Font Collections Enhancements
We have extended support with Font Collections! They can be activated and deactivated like Font Libraries, keeping your Font Manager clutter-free. You have full control with QuarkXPress 2026 as a built-in font management tool, so there’s no need for third party tools anymore!
Previous Releases
AI Is Here for Perpetual License Holders*
QuarkXPress v21.1 brings AI functionality for perpetual license holders. Supercharge your workflow with the revolutionary Quarky AI assistant and AI-powered Font Pairing.
*Active maintenance and support contract required
Quarky’s Had an Upgrade! Effortlessly Change Tone and Freely Edit with a Prompt
It’s easy to change the tone of your content now thanks to the latest Quarky assistance. Pick from formal or informal options, simplify text and even choose to make your text more engaging. On top of that, you can Edit with a Prompt to create your own AI-generated text!
Level Up Your Typography with COLRv1
Enhance your creative workflows for COLRv1 fonts, which is part of the OpenType 1.9 standard. You can now work with solid-color COLRv1 fonts in both print and digital layouts—while also benefiting from full gradient rendering in digital output.
Boost Efficiency with Font Libraries in the Font Manager Palette
In QuarkXPress 2025 you can map and manage fonts faster than ever with new Font Libraries, it’s easy to enable or disable fonts without going into your system settings. Get access to all your fonts within one place.
New User-Friendly and Accessible Story Editor
We listened to your feedback and have refreshed the Story Editor’s visual appearance, so it’s accessible to adjust the font family, font size, line spacing (leading) and text styles.
Save Time with Markdown for AI-Generated and Web-Based Content
Experience real-world formatting with higher quality markdown integration for AI and web-based content such as bold, italics, nested lists, highlights, and hyperlinks. Plus, feel the enhancements in AI-powered Font Pairing, where more styles can be applied to content generated by Quarky.
Get Linked! Seamless Smart Hyperlinks Detection with Markdown
QuarkXPress automatically detects and converts Markdown hyperlinks into working Smart Hyperlinks. Free up your valuable time and be more productive when writing or pasting content with links into Markdown!
Your Dynamic and Enriched Quick Access Bar
Your own frequently used tools are now closer to the canvas, as the Quick Access Bar changes and adapts based on what you are working on. This includes short cuts for tables, special characters or applying shape styles, providing you with a faster design experience.
Reduce Errors with Live Spell Check for Indic and Middle Eastern Languages
QuarkXPress 2025 brings text editing accuracy for Indic and Middle Eastern languages with Live Spell Check from the Hunspell dictionary. It’s also a breeze to enable or disable Live Spell Check from the Utilities menu.
Getting Stuck and Need to Reset? Easily Restore Palettes to Default
Speed up your thoughts to action by easily restoring your palettes to default from the Windows menu. This latest feature helps you to save a ton of time minimizing clutter.
Transform Your Layouts with Rounded Corner Text Shading
QuarkXPress continues to raise the bar on typography. Improve your text shading by applying rounded corners to make your layouts more expressive and creative. Simply pick the corners you want (any number) and give them all the same rounded edge using only one radius value.
AI-Powered Text Editing with Quarky AI Assistant
Say hello to Quarky! QuarkXPress subscription license holders can level up their copy game with our new Quarky AI assistant. You can generate text, get title suggestions, summarize and paraphrase text, correct grammar and even translate it instantly with Quarky.
Save Time with AI-Powered Font Pairing
The new AI-powered Font Pairing in QuarkXPress 2025 lets you find font suggestions that look amazing together. So, you can transform your project’s appearance with perfectly harmonized fonts every time by pairing the font you select with complementary fonts from the Google Fonts library.
Work Faster and Smarter with the Quick Access Bar
Get fast access to your favorite tools from the moveable Quick Access Bar. Pin and unpin frequently used items to boost your design efficiency and stay focused on creativity.
Effortlessly Stylish! Apply Style Groups with a Single Click
Tired of manually formatting text? Style Groups let you create and save typography styles. Apply them instantly across your design, ensuring consistency and saving you precious time.
Explode Your Color Palette with the New Colors Tab
Dive into an ocean of color with the new Colors Tab. Experiment and instantly apply colors to your designs without creating a swatch first. And if you like it, add it as a swatch later!
All Your Fonts at Your Fingertips Thanks to Font Collections
Stay organized by creating and saving typography styles and your favorite fonts into custom collections. Keeping them conveniently together to find fast and apply instantly.
Fix As You Go with Real-Time Spell Check
If you’re tired of typos, use real-time spell check which catches mistakes as you type, so your content is always spot on.
Get the Perfect Fit with Fit Text to Box and Autofit Text
Avoid overflow or unwanted spaces with Fit Text to Box and Autofit Text. Make sure your text fits like a dream without manually changing it all the time.
It’s Nesting Time! Seamlessly Link and Reuse Different Projects
Avoid duplication time by reusing and linking different QuarkXPress projects seamlessly in your current design layout. Nested Projects makes working across projects super easy.
IDML As a Package – Export IDML in a Single Payload
Now you can pass project work more seamlessly between other design apps by exporting IDMLs as packages. Quickly, share assets such as fonts and images with your design clients.
That’s a Link! Customize and Trigger Smart Hyperlinks
Customize your hyperlinks within design layouts, change the rules on how links should be detected and how they should behave. Hyperlinks are identified and styled in real time.
Marked up? We’re All for Markdown
QuarkXPress is Markdown ready! When you import text files with markdown language, formatting elements can be applied to your style sheets with the minimum of fuss.
Relax, We’re Rounding the Corner
Now it’s so easy to adjust rounded corners of rectangular boxes. Instantly customize and spice up your box effects to add some variety to your designs.
Easily Search for Images Using AI Recognition in Local Image Libraries
Search and find content with simple prompts using AI image recognition technology without leaving the QuarkXPress workspace. Boost your productivity when working on large and complex projects with a large volume of images across folders and network locations.
Save Time By Generating Hyperlinks Automatically
In v20.1, hyperlinks such as email addresses and URLs from websites are automatically detected. Once added, the correct formatting is applied and the hyperlinks are underlined, saving you unnecessary format interruptions when creating design content.
Enrich IDML Exports with Tables, Static Pictures, Callouts and More
Enhance the export between QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign and add a smooth transition to maximize your creative collaboration. New IDML export features include tables, static pictures, callouts, multiple spread pages, bookmarks, gradients, column span, text shading, text kerning and text outlines.
Check Image Quality Super-Fast with the Picture Links Palette
Validate your image quality with filters such as color space, status, and effective pixels per inch (PPI). Easily access the Picture Links Palette by right-clicking on an image, saving you time.
Step Up Your GREP Game with Character Styling
Carry out changes to specific typographic content such as character styling using GREP commands. Find & Change with GREP is not just for text content but can also work on character attributes for selection and replacement.
Ready to Use Presets for GREP Find & Change
New pre-configured and customizable presets for GREP in v20.1 can be used without any prior knowledge, helping you streamline repetitive tasks. Share presets with your team by exporting and importing GREP presets.
macOS Sonoma Compatible
QuarkXPress 2024 is compatible with the latest mac OS Sonoma(14.x), along with the previous Ventura(13.x) and Monterey(12.x) versions.
New Visual Fonts Palette
A new visual fonts palette in QuarkXPress 2024 improves how you view, browse, and manage your fonts. Iterate your ideas swiftly with access to libraries and collections on recently used and document-loaded fonts.
1,500 Integrated Full and Free Google Fonts
Access over 1,500 professional typefaces, with more than 5,000 styles, using Google fonts integrated into QuarkXPress 2024. Engage with your audience with high-quality professional fonts.
New Picture Links Palette
Easily see the status, additional information, and customization of project images. The new picture links palette enables you to manage images in real-time with missing or modified statuses, and to quickly relink existing images where needed.
Latest Image Formats Support for WebP, HEIF and HEIC
You can seamlessly import images using the latest WebP, HEIF and HEIC formats, so you can be flexible and efficient with your workflow in QuarkXPress 2024.
Local Image Libraries Support
Users can conveniently access images for projects in one unified location, create collections from image libraries such as Unsplash and Pexels, and mark favourite images in the image library for quick reference.
IDML Export Option for Improved Tool Collaboration
Instantly export to IDML format to collaborate effortlessly between QuarkXPress 2024 and other design tools you might have in your toolkit, to fuel your creative vision without unnecessary complexity.
Advanced Text Find & Replace with GREP
With GREP you can instantly find and change text in a project or change the styling of text. In QuarkXPress 2024 you can convert URLs to hyperlinks, highlight all the quotes and reformat phone numbers, dates and punctuation, and more.
More Control of Right-To-Left Language Text
The enhanced Right-To-Left language features in QuarkXPress 2024 allow you to mix multiple languages in one document, and control of the Column Direction, Story Direction, Kashida and much more.
Enhanced Digital Flip Book and Reflow ePub Experiences
Improved flip book features now allow you to publish digital publications that better replicate turning the pages of a physical book. Plus, in QuarkXPress 2024 you have increased control over the picture sizes in reflowable ePub formats for more precise publishing.
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