InDesign: EPUB Typography

Learn how to create EPUBS with great typography in InDesign CC. Find out how to choose fonts, size and scale type, adjust alignment and spacing, and more.

Think great EPUB typography is impossible? Think again. Typefaces for screens are multiplying, ereaders are improving, and InDesign CC has more features for customizing EPUBs than ever before. This combination gives designers the freedom and flexibility to build more aesthetically pleasing EPUBs. In this course, Nigel French leads you through the basics of creating EPUBS with good typography in InDesign CC. Learn how to choose fonts for maximum legibility and readability, size and scale type, thread text throughout a layout, and adjust alignment and spacing. Nigel also covers working with special characters, bullets, and paragraph rules.

Note: While most of the lessons are centered on reflowable EPUBs, specific issues for fixed-layout EPUBs are called out along the way.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Who should take this course?

1. Screens Are Not Pages

• Working with type on screen
• Comparing different types of digital publishing

2. Consideration for Choosing Screen Type

• Embedding fonts
• Considering legibility and readability
• Enhancing weight and stroke modulation
• Deciding on serif vs. sans serif
• Considering script typefaces
• Working with X-height
• Letterspacing
• Other design attributes
• Choosing font style
• Considering font families

3. Working with Screen Type

• Adjusting type sizes on screen
• Scaling type
• Converting leading and line height
• Setting color and contrast

4. Managing Type in EPUBs

• Controlling page and margin sizes
• The importance of styles
• Threading text

5. Alignment and Spacing of Type in EPUBs

• Working with alignment
• Creating indents and paragraph spacing
• Controlling page breaks
• Incorporating line breaks
• Controlling widows, orphans, and runts
• Adding hyphenation

6. Special Considerations for Type in EPUBs

• Considering typographic details
• Using drop caps
• Including white-space characters
• Working with paragraph rules
• Inserting bullets

Conclusion

• Goodbye