u/LeadershipMuted2201

Missing fonts, overset text, broken links - fine, software catches that.

But widows, orphans, repeated words, short last lines, inconsistent quotes, weird local overrides, bad punctuation spacing, or visual rhythm breaks across a long document? Still mostly human scanning.

For people doing editorial, books, reports, catalogs, or brand systems: do you have a formal typographic QA pass before export, or is it still mostly manual review?

I’m asking because I’ve been working on tooling in this space and I’m trying to understand whether designers see this as a real pain or just part of the job.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a tool called Avellio for Adobe InDesign:

https://buy.avellio.app/

The idea came from a frustration I’ve had for a long time: after more than two decades of InDesign, a surprising amount of final typography checking is still manual.

InDesign has Preflight, of course, but Preflight mostly thinks in terms of production issues: missing fonts, overset text, broken links, color spaces, etc.

What it doesn’t really do well is act like a typography QA layer before export.

I’m talking about the boring but important things designers still have to scan for manually:

• widows and orphans
• short last lines
• repeated words
• double spaces
• wrong quotation marks
• bad punctuation spacing
• inconsistent character styles
• risky local overrides
• visual inconsistencies across longer documents

So I built Avellio to automate as much of that final inspection pass as possible.

It scans an InDesign document, detects typography and style issues, and marks them directly inside the layout so you can review the problems visually instead of hunting through paragraphs one by one.

The goal is not to replace designers or proofreaders. It’s to remove the repetitive inspection work that happens at the end of a project, when everyone is tired and mistakes are most expensive.

I honestly think Adobe could have had something like this built into InDesign years ago. Maybe even decades ago. But since it still isn’t really there, I decided to build it myself.

I’d love feedback from people who work with InDesign, editorial design, books, magazines, catalogs, annual reports, or prepress.

What would you expect a serious typography QA tool to catch?

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I’m also setting up a mailing list on my Gumroad page for anyone who wants to follow the development of Avellio and its typography engine:

https://akiramethod.gumroad.com/

I’ll use it for updates, new checks, workflow improvements, and feedback-based features from real InDesign users.

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