Quire
Create scholarly, visually rich digital books that last
Online ∙ Print ∙ E‑book
Quire is an open-source multiformat publishing tool designed for longevity, discoverability, and scholarship. Using a single set of plain text files, Quire creates books as authoritative and enduring as print and as vibrant and feature-rich as the web—all without paying a fee or maintaining a complicated server.
Created by Getty, free to use.
Why Quire?
Quire is an ideal solution for anyone seeking to publish beautiful digital books optimized for visual imagery and designed to ensure widely accessible and stable content.
Quire allows for greater preservation and digital distribution of works in a simplified format.
—Kris Thayer, Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Affordable Open source and does not require proprietary software or ongoing maintenance fees
- Discoverable Increased visibility by publishing as PDF, e-book, website, or print-on-demand
- Sustainable Based around static site generation and plain text files ensuring stability and longevity
- Book-like Built-in understanding of high-quality, scholarly publishing with clean, modern design
Quire Publications
Newberry Library
Exhibition Catalogue | 2025
Quire users: @dewmaps @historianem
Yale University Art Gallery
Collection Catalogue | 2023
Quire users: @tiffanysprague @zsofiaj
Denver Art Museum
Symposium Papers | 2026
Quire users: @LeslieMurrell @mpopke
Museum Studies at the George Washington University
Essay Collection | 2022
Quire users: @shineslike @gealbers
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Yale Center for British Art
Journal | 2025
Quire users: @pmcbcard @tompowell-pmc @brutaldigital @cbutcosk
Features & Functionality
Customizable Design
Allows for a wide range of possible custom features and styles
Multimedia Support
Expands rich scholarship with embedded audio, video, deep-zooming images and more
Single-source Publishing
Multiformat output from a single set of source files speeds production without duplicating effort
Simplified Structure
Keeps source content in nonspecialized plain text to ensure reusability
The Quire Community
Quire is used by a growing community of scholars, publishers, curators, developers, and the digitally curious. The Quire community is vibrant and diverse, representing a broad spectrum of institutions that provide vital scholarship in the arts and humanities, at all sizes and scales. We support and empower our community at every level of technical experience. All are welcome.
Joining the Quire community is as easy as becoming a user, sharing your work, contributing code, or attending/hosting a Quire event, among other exciting opportunities.
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