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InDesign: Typography Part 1

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Adobe InDesign Courses Typography Courses Typefaces Courses Kerning Courses OpenType Courses

Course Description

Overview

Explore the typography options, type-related features, and type-specific preferences of Adobe InDesign.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Exercise files
  • Creating a typographic workspace
1. Choosing and Combining Typefaces
  • Type anatomy and terminology
  • An overview of type classifications
  • Type naming conventions
  • Using Typekit
  • Choosing typefaces
2. Character Formatting
  • Sizing and scaling type
  • Casing
  • Small caps
  • Underline and strikethru type
  • Superscript and subscript
  • Baseline shift
  • Italic and oblique type
  • Condensed and extended type
3. Leading (Line Spacing)
  • Definition
  • Considerations for leading
  • Auto-leading: When to avoid it, when to use it
  • Auto-leading and inline graphics
  • Leading shortcuts and preferences
4. Letter Spacing, Tracking, and Kerning
  • Defining
  • Letter spacing
  • Tracking
  • Adjusting word spacing
  • Kerning
  • Metrics kerning and optical kerning
5. Small and Important Details
  • Using the Glyphs panel
  • Quotes, apostrophes, and primes
  • Em dashes and en dashes
  • Spacing characters
  • Ellipsis
  • Optical sizing
6. OpenType features
  • Ligatures
  • Fractions
  • Numerals
  • Contextual alternates
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Nigel French

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