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InDesign: Typography Part 2

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Explore the typography options, features, and preferences of Adobe InDesign, in this exploration of macro typography. Learn about text flow, alignment, spacing, styles, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Exercise files
1. Text Flow
  • Text flow and text threading
  • Using placeholder text to mock up pages
  • Spanning, splitting, and balancing columns
  • Auto-sizing text frames
  • Good type hygiene
2. Alignment
  • Left-aligned type
  • Justified type
  • Centered type
  • Right-aligned type
  • Aligning to or away from the spine
  • Hanging punctuation
  • Vertical alignment options
3. Indents, Insets, and Spacing
  • First-line indents
  • Other types of indents
  • Using text insets
  • Paragraph spacing
4. Typical Formatting Scenarios
  • Tabbed text
  • Bullet and numbered lists
  • Working with tables
  • Setting a drop cap or initial cap
  • Working with text wraps
5. Global Formatting with Styles
  • Efficient and consistent formatting
  • Creating, applying, and editing
  • Parent and child styles
  • Nested styles and line styles
  • Sequential styles
  • Using a grep style
  • Paragraph rules and shaded paragraphs
6. Controlling Text
  • Hyphenation
  • Breaking lines
  • Keep Options
  • Preventing short lines
7. Design Considerations
  • Combining typefaces
  • Establishing hierarchy
  • Using white space
  • Working with a grid
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Nigel French

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