InDesign: Typography Part 1
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
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
- Type anatomy and terminology
- An overview of type classifications
- Type naming conventions
- Using Typekit
- Choosing typefaces
- Sizing and scaling type
- Casing
- Small caps
- Underline and strikethru type
- Superscript and subscript
- Baseline shift
- Italic and oblique type
- Condensed and extended type
- Definition
- Considerations for leading
- Auto-leading: When to avoid it, when to use it
- Auto-leading and inline graphics
- Leading shortcuts and preferences
- Defining
- Letter spacing
- Tracking
- Adjusting word spacing
- Kerning
- Metrics kerning and optical kerning
- Using the Glyphs panel
- Quotes, apostrophes, and primes
- Em dashes and en dashes
- Spacing characters
- Ellipsis
- Optical sizing
- Ligatures
- Fractions
- Numerals
- Contextual alternates
- Goodbye
Taught by
Nigel French
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