InDesign Type Professional Typography with

This fully updated guide shows you how to create beautiful type with Adobe InDesign.

Focuses exclusively on typographic capabilities of InDesign.

Includes complete coverage of new typographical InDesign CS5 features.

InDesign expert Nigel French explains the how's and why's of good typography. It's no mystery why InDesign has become the premier page layout program: It offers great tools, including friendly yet-sophisticated typographic controls. Here to show users how to take advantage of them is the long-awaited update to the book devoted solely to that topic.

Everyone, from graphics pros migrating from QuarkXPress, to hobbyists producing fancy invites and book-length projects, will appreciate this guide's finely tuned focus on everything typographic. To take full advantage of InDesign's typographic tools, readers must understand the principles guiding their use.

Author Nigel French recognizes this and addresses both the whys and the hows of good typography. Using practical examples, loads of tips, and sidebars to provide additional detail, Nigel provides a comprehensive overview of all of InDesign's type features, including new features in InDesign CS5: the ability to have text span columns, custom borders on frames, live captions, Bridge integration, and the ability to track text changes.

French illustrates every single feature discussed with an example. Every chapter had at least one or two pieces of advice that can be immediately applied to your work. Starting with character formats and then moving through paragraph formats, styles and effects, and layouts, this textbook teaches all the skills users need to produce beautiful type.

Nigel French is a graphic designer, photographer, and software trainer living in Brighton, England. His website is www.nigelfrench.com.

Introduction	p. ix
Getting Started	p. 1
Type Anatomy and Classification	p. 4
An InDesign Type Map: Where to Find the Type Stuff	p. 10
Viewing Your Page	p. 15
Creating a Typography Workspace	p. 16
Getting Type on your Page	p. 21
Creating Text Frames	p. 22
Text Flow	p. 23
Threading Text Frames	p. 27
Using the Story Editor	p. 36
Cleaning up Text	p. 38
Character Formats	p. 41
Text Selection Methods	p. 42
Character Formatting Options	p. 43
Readability	p. 58
Leading	p. 61
Getting the Lead Out	p. 62
(Not) Using Auto Leading	p. 68
Keep it Consistent, Exceptà	p. 69
Letterspacing, Tracking, and Kerning	p. 73
Letterspacing vs. Tracking	p. 74
Tracking vs. Kerning	p. 76
Kerning	p. 82
Small (but Important) Details	p. 89
Typographer's Quotes	p. 90
Apostrophes	p. 91
Punctuation	p. 91
Dashes	p. 93
Ellipses	p. 94
End Marks	p. 94
Symbols	p. 94
White Space Characters	p. 95
The Glyphs Panel	p. 97
Unicode	p. 99
Ligatures, Diphthongs, and the Dotless!	p. 103
Ornaments	p. 105
Swash Characters	p. 105
Oldstyle Figures	p. 105
Contextual Alternates	p. 106
Titling Alternates	p. 106
Optical Sizes	p. 107
Alignment	p. 109
Horizontal Alignment	p. 110
Left Alignment	p. 110
Justified Alignment (Justified with last line aligned left)	p. 113
Centering Type	p. 117
Right-Aligned Type	p. 119
Other Justification Options	p. 119
Combining Left and Right Alignment	p. 121
Hanging Punctuation	p. 122
Vertical Alignment	p. 122
Paragraph Indents and Spacing	p. 125
First-Line Indents	p. 126
Hanging Indents	p. 129
Left and Right Indents	p. 130
Space Before and Space After	p. 132
Breaking (and Not Breaking) Words, Lines, Paragraphs, and Pages	p. 135
Hyphenation	p. 136
Hyphenation Options	p. 137
Discretionary Hyphens and Nonbreaking Hyphens	p. 140
Hyphenation and User Dictionaries	p. 142
Hyphenation Dos and Don'ts	p. 143
The No Break Attribute	p. 145
Break Characters	p. 146
Keep Options	p. 147
Tabs, Tables, and Lists	p. 151
Working with Tables	p. 152
Bulleted and Numbered lists	p. 165
Tabs	p. 168
Drop Caps	p. 171
Creating a Simple Drop Cap	p. 174
Drop Cap Aesthetics	p. 176
Difficult Drop Caps	p. 180
Global Formatting with Styles	p. 183
Defining Our Terms	p. 184
Why Use Styles?	p. 184
[Basic Paragraph]	p. 185
Creating Styles	p. 185
Applying Styles	p. 187
Editing Styles	p. 190
Loading Styles from Another Document	p. 191
Organizing Styles	p. 192
Combining Typefaces	p. 194
A Typical Style Sheet	p. 196
Character Styles	p. 200
Paragraph Rules	p. 204
Sequential Styles	p. 204
Nested Styles	p. 207
Nested Line Styles	p. 209
GREP Styles	p. 210
Object Styles	p. 211
Table and Cell Styles	p. 214
Working with Text Wraps	p. 217
Applying Text Wraps	p. 218
Wrapping Type Around Irregularly Shaped Graphics	p. 221
Ignoring a Text Wrap	p. 227
Pages, Margins, Columns, and Grids	p. 231
Setting Up the Document	p. 232
Setting Up Columns	p. 240
Using Grids	p. 243
Page Numbers and Running Heads	p. 260
Bibliography	p. 265
Index	p. 269
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