InDesign: Typography Part 2

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.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Exercise files

1. Text Flow

• Text flow and text threading
• Using placeholder text to mock up pages
• Spanning, splitting, and balancing columns
• Auto-sizing text frames
• Good type hygiene

2. Alignment

• Left-aligned type
• Justified type
• Centered type
• Right-aligned type
• Aligning to or away from the spine
• Hanging punctuation
• Vertical alignment options

3. Indents, Insets, and Spacing

• First-line indents
• Other types of indents
• Using text insets
• Paragraph spacing

4. Typical Formatting Scenarios

• Tabbed text
• Bullet and numbered lists
• Working with tables
• Setting a drop cap or initial cap
• Working with text wraps

5. Global Formatting with Styles

• 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

6. Controlling Text

• Hyphenation
• Breaking lines
• Keep Options
• Preventing short lines

7. Design Considerations

• Combining typefaces
• Establishing hierarchy
• Using white space
• Working with a grid

Conclusion

• Goodbye