# Darty Basics

Darty-Ai is a powerful variable-data Adobe Illustrator extension.

To install, please visit the Installation section.
To get started, read the introductory topics:

# Requirements

Hardware - desktop or laptop computer.
Note: large-document processing benefits from powerful hardware to reduce wait times.
Operating System - Windows & macOS.
Adobe Illustrator - versions 28 (2024) and 29 (2025) or later.
Darty-Ai - download it from our installers page.
Optional: Excel - a spreadsheet application to create data with. See Using Excel.

Creation and usage of the specially-formatted spreadsheet header for Darty operations.

Learn how to use Darty tags to hook up your art to the data.

The full documentation of Darty methods.

Read about the built-in color libraries included with Darty-Ai.

Learn all about using the Darty-Ai user-interface.