InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2This is the first examination of the sophisticated typographic capabilities of Indesign CS and CS2. It covers in detail new type-related features, such as Sequential Styles, Import Word Styles, and Anchored Objects. It gives clear, engaging explanations of the why and the how of good typography. Whether you're a graphics pros migrating from InDesign's long-entrenched competitor QuarkXPress or a hobbyists producing fancy invites and book-length projects, you'll appreciate this guide's finely tuned focus on everything typographic.Realizing that to take full advantage of InDesign's typographic tools, you must understand the principles guiding their use, author Nigel French addresses both the whys and the hows of good typography. Using examples & tips, Nigel provides an overview of InDesign's type features, including the Paragraph Composer, optical kerning, and its support for OpenType fonts. Starting with character formats and then moving through paragraph formats, styles & effects, and layouts, you'll have gained the skills they need to produce beautiful type by the end of the volume. |
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... kerning and track- ing interchangeably . While closely related , they are distinct . Kerning refers to adjusting the space between a pair of characters . Tracking means adjusting the space across a range of ... Kerning Optical Kerning 458555.
... kerning and track- ing interchangeably . While closely related , they are distinct . Kerning refers to adjusting the space between a pair of characters . Tracking means adjusting the space across a range of ... Kerning Optical Kerning 458555.
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... kerning method as part of a style sheet definition . Metrics Kerning Metrics Kerning uses the kern pairs that are built into the font , or most fonts . Adobe typefaces tend to have between 500 and 1000 kerning pairs . The El Cheapo font ...
... kerning method as part of a style sheet definition . Metrics Kerning Metrics Kerning uses the kern pairs that are built into the font , or most fonts . Adobe typefaces tend to have between 500 and 1000 kerning pairs . The El Cheapo font ...
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Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2 Nigel French. Manual Kerning To adjust kerning manually , insert your Type Tool between two characters . Press Option + Left / Right Arrow ( Alt + Left / Right Arrow ) to decrease or ...
Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2 Nigel French. Manual Kerning To adjust kerning manually , insert your Type Tool between two characters . Press Option + Left / Right Arrow ( Alt + Left / Right Arrow ) to decrease or ...
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adjust Advanced Character Formats alit Anchored Object applied Auto Leading baseline grid Basic Character Formats Battersea Power Station body text Break brown fox jumps Bullets and Numbering Cancel OK Caps and Nested cell Chapter Character Styles choose Control palette create cursor dash Delete Dictionary discretionary hyphen Display document dolor drag drop cap Edit ellipsis em dash eugait example faccum FIGURE Footnote Glyphs grave accent increment Indents and Spacing InDesign Insert italic justified kerning keyboard shortcut layer Layout Left Indent Letter Spacing Ligatures look lowercase menu Nested Styles Offset OpenType OpenType fonts Options Style Overprint paragraph spacing Paragraph Style Paragraph Style Options Preferences pull quote quick brown fox Quotation Mark Right Indent serif shape small caps Story Editor stroke style definition Style Name style sheet subheads text frame text wrap Tint tracking Trail Type Tool typefaces typography uppercase Vertical word spacing x-height