InDesign: Typography
4h 58mBeginner2024-05-14
Authors
Nigel French
Graphic Designer, Author, Artist, Trainer
Course details
InDesign Typography explores the numerous type options, type-related features, and type-specific preferences of Adobe InDesign, one of the world’s most popular and widely used design tools. Equipped with practical, applicable examples, instructor and designer Nigel French explains the purpose of each feature and demonstrates the conventions for how and when to use it. Discover the fundamentals of type, character formats, paragraph formats, text frame options, composition, styles, and tables. By the end of this course, you’ll also be prepared to customize text formats, manage paragraph and character styles, control text flow, and much more.
Skills covered
TypographyDigital PublishingInDesignMotion Graphics and VFXGraphic DesignAdobeAnimation and IllustrationDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
Introduction
- Create typography with InDesign
- How to use the exercise files
- Create a typography workspace
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
Character Formats
- Sizing type
- Font style
- Casing and underlining
- Leading
- Tracking
- Kerning
- Baseline shift
Paragraph Formats
- Alignment
- Indents
- Paragraph spacing
- Bullets and numbering
- Drop caps
- Paragraph rules
- Paragraph borders and shading
- Span columns
Text Frame Options
- Column options
- Text insets
- Vertical alignment
- Column rules
- Baseline options
- Auto-size text frames
The Details
- Access special characters via the Glyphs panel
- White space characters
- Using OpenType features
Composition
- Hyphenation
- Justification
- Optical margin alignment
- Line breaks
- Keep Options
- Text Wraps
Styles
- Paragraph styles
- Character styles
- GREP styles
- Nested styles
- Object styles
Tables
- Table aesthetics
- Creating and editing tables
- Table Styles and Cell Styles
- Tabs and leaders
Grids and Document Structure
- Setting margins
- Parent (master) pages
- Creating a layout grid
- Using a baseline grid
Conclusion
- Next steps