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. |
Contents
Getting Started | 3 |
Going with the Flow | 13 |
Character Reference | 25 |
Getting the Lead Out | 45 |
Kern Baby Kern | 57 |
Sweating the Small Stuff | 69 |
OpenType | 87 |
Aligning Your Type | 99 |
Dont Fear the Hyphen | 149 |
Mastering Tabs and Tables | 161 |
Stylin with Paragraph and Character Styles | 181 |
Mo Style | 199 |
Setting Up Your Document | 211 |
Everything in Its Right Place | 225 |
Text Wraps | 237 |
Type Effects | 249 |
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adjust Advanced Character Formats applied Auto Leading baseline grid Basic Character Formats Battersea Power Station body text brown fox jumps Bullets and Numbering Cancel OK Caps and Nested cell Chapter Character Styles choose color Control palette create cursor dash discretionary hyphen document dolor drop cap edit ellipsis em dash example faccum FIGURE first-line indent Footnote Giles Gilbert Scott Glyph Glyph Scaling headline Indents and Spacing InDesign Insert italic justified kerning layer layout Letter Spacing ligatures look menu Microsoft Word Nested Styles offset OpenType OpenType fonts Optical Margin Alignment Options Style paragraph spacing Paragraph Style Paragraph Style Options Preferences Preview pull quote quick brown fox Section Marker Selection tool serif shape sidebar small caps specify Story Editor stroke style definition Style Name style sheet Styles palette subheads text frame text wrap tracking Trail Type Tool typefaces typographic Vertical word spacing x-height