InDesign: Typography

Introduction

• Create typography with InDesign
• How to use the exercise files
• Create a typography workspace

1. Type Fundamentals

• Type anatomy and terminology
• Typing and selecting text
• Placing and flowing text
• Understanding text threads
• Text cleanup, the Story Editor, and Find/Change
• Using placeholder text

2. Character Formats

• Sizing type
• Font style
• Casing and underlining
• Leading
• Tracking
• Kerning
• Baseline shift

3. Paragraph Formats

• Alignment
• Indents
• Paragraph spacing
• Bullets and numbering
• Drop caps
• Paragraph rules
• Paragraph borders and shading
• Span columns

4. Text Frame Options

• Column options
• Text insets
• Vertical alignment
• Column rules
• Baseline options
• Auto-size text frames

5. The Details

• Access special characters via the Glyphs panel
• White space characters
• Using OpenType features

6. Composition

• Hyphenation
• Justification
• Optical margin alignment
• Line breaks
• Keep Options
• Text Wraps

7. Styles

• Paragraph styles
• Character styles
• GREP styles
• Nested styles
• Object styles

8. Tables

• Table aesthetics
• Creating and editing tables
• Table Styles and Cell Styles
• Tabs and leaders

9. Grids and Document Structure

• Setting margins
• Parent (master) pages
• Creating a layout grid
• Using a baseline grid

Conclusion

• Next steps