QuarkXPress Desktop Publishing and Page Layout Software
QuarkXPress is the original and powerful desktop publishing software. It has been refined for over 40 years and trusted today by creative professionals for brilliant print and digital design.
You can choose to buy the software upfront and keep it forever or subscribe. QuarkXPress offers both perpetual software licenses and subscriptions.
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“The ImageGrid has been a secret weapon in QuarkXPress for more than a decade. Now it’s been upgraded and refined in QuarkXPress 2026 to work on multiple master pages and more, making it the unexpected ally in many layout problems that other software can’t solve.”
Powerful QuarkXPress Features to Boost Your Creativity
Quark continuously gathers feedback to shape our product roadmap, giving customers new functionality to turn their ideas into visual realities. The latest version of QuarkXPress includes these features:
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.
AI-Powered Text Editing with Quarky AI Assistant*
Say hello to Quarky! Level up your 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.
Have Precise Control and Creativity with the ‘Paste Into’ Feature
Create eye-catching layouts with precision and flexibility. Paste Into enables you to mask images or group items by placing them inside container shapes, showcasing your true creative vision.
Save Time with AI-Powered Font Pairing*
AI-powered Font Pairing in QuarkXPress 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.
Paper Color Previews As You Work
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.
*Quarky AI assistant and AI-powered Font Pairing is available for subscription license holders and perpetual licenses with active maintenance and support contract required from v21.1 onwards.
Perfect Print and Digital Designs
Quark knows content. Since its debut in 1987, thousands of creative professionals have come to depend on QuarkXPress for its power, speed and reliability for content design – on its own or alongside other graphic design tools. Functionality like native-object conversion, conditional styles, synchronized content and automatic backups make your workflows dramatically faster to deliver projects as promised, on time and within budget. Brilliant print and digital content design begins with QuarkXPress, the original desktop publishing and page layout software for creative professionals.
Buy NowSTART FREE TRIALQuarkXPress Desktop Publishing Capabilities
Typography & Styles
It enables you to build typography layouts which elevate both the user experience and the visual design of your projects.
Digital Publishing
Convert print publications to
responsive digital layouts, with
no HTML-coding skills required.
QuarkXPress Competitor Comparison
View comparisonWhat Will You Create?
Brochures
Promote products, advertise services, or tell stories – create engaging brochure layouts that make a lasting impact.
Books
Produce clear and attractive book layouts perfectly for traditional print or digital formats.
Magazines
Create engaging and informative magazine layouts ready to print or publish as a digital asset.
Newspapers
QuarkXPress is the original industry-standard for print-perfect and now digital newspaper layouts.
QuarkXPress Standout Features
Here are just a few of the impressive things you can achieve with QuarkXPress.
With over 40 years of continuous refinement, QuarkXPress empowers you to create stunning designs,
both printed and digital at ease.
Import and edit any existing design instantly.
Use AI recognition in local image libraries.
Seamless non-destructive image editing.
Over 1,500 high-quality Google fonts.
Full Pantone Color Libraries included for free.
Export easily to multiple print or digital formats.
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QuarkXPress 2026
Minimum System
Requirements
Mac
macOS® 26.x (Tahoe), macOS® 15.x (Sequoia),
macOS® 14.x (Sonoma)
Windows
Versions 11, 10 (64-bit only
with latest updates)
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Tutorials
Dive into our short or expanded tutorials to help you get up to speed quickly with QuarkXPress, the world’s most powerful desktop publishing and page layout tool for professional print and digital creatives.
See QuarkXPress TutorialsContent Collaboration & App Publishing Add-Ons
Additional software is available as add-ons to QuarkXPress for content collaboration and copyediting and app publishing. So if you’re using QuarkXPress for in-house publishing or you want to expand your content’s reach and monetization through branded apps, then check out these two products:
QuarkXPress CopyDesk enables content components to be edited without altering an established layout. Once a page design is set, the designer designates headlines, subheads, copy blocks, photos and graphics as editable elements. Then writers and editors can amend text, place, crop or rotate images, and write copy for a precise fit.
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