Overview
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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
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Exercise files
- Text flow and text threading
- Using placeholder text to mock up pages
- Spanning, splitting, and balancing columns
- Auto-sizing text frames
- Good type hygiene
- Left-aligned type
- Justified type
- Centered type
- Right-aligned type
- Aligning to or away from the spine
- Hanging punctuation
- Vertical alignment options
- First-line indents
- Other types of indents
- Using text insets
- Paragraph spacing
- Tabbed text
- Bullet and numbered lists
- Working with tables
- Setting a drop cap or initial cap
- Working with text wraps
- 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
- Hyphenation
- Breaking lines
- Keep Options
- Preventing short lines
- Combining typefaces
- Establishing hierarchy
- Using white space
- Working with a grid
- Goodbye
