Table Of ContentCHAPTER 1 About Type CHAPTER 2 Type on the Page CHAPTER 3 Type Choices CHAPTER 4 Screen Typography CHAPTER 5 Leading CHAPTER 6 Alignment CHAPTER 7 Letterspacing, Tracking, and Kerning CHAPTER 8 Small (but Important) Details CHAPTER 9 Paragraph Indents and Spacing CHAPTER 10 Breaking (and Not Breaking) CHAPTER 11 Tables CHAPTER 12 Bullet and Number Lists CHAPTER 13 Drop Caps CHAPTER 14 Combine Typefaces CHAPTER 15 Styles CHAPTER 16 Type and Image CHAPTER 17 Page Geometry, Grids, and White Space APPENDIX Type Checklist
SynopsisThis fully updated guide shows students how to create beautiful type for print and web with Adobe InDesign. Using practical examples, loads of tips, and sidebars to provide additional detail, author Nigel French provides a comprehensive overview of all of InDesign's type features, including new features and Creative Cloud features not included in previous editions. Starting with character formats and then moving through paragraph formats, styles and effects, and layouts, this book teaches all the skills students need to produce beautiful type. More than ever, modern typographers need to be prepared to craft type that will be used in a wide variety of media, from the printed page to the high-resolution displays of mobile devices, and this new edition of InDesign Type is the perfect guidebook for them., Typography is the foundation of all graphic design. And if there's one sure way to improve as a graphic designer, it's to become more confident and more sophisticated in your use of type. This fully updated fourth edition is a comprehensive guide to creating professional type with Adobe InDesign. It covers micro and macro typography concepts, from understanding the nuance of a single spacing width to efficiently creating long and complex documents. InDesign Type shows not just how to use InDesign's extensive type features, but why certain approaches are preferable to others, and how to avoid common mistakes. Whether you're creating a single-page flyer or a thousand-page catalog, whether your documents will be printed or viewed on screen, InDesign Type is an invaluable resource for getting the most out of InDesign's typographic toolset. InDesign Type provides: - An exclusive focus on the typographic capabilities of InDesign - Complete coverage of macro and micro typography in InDesign - Clear, engaging explanations of the why and the how of good typography