8. Working with Typography

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

  • Adjust vertical and horizontal text spacing.

  • Change fonts and type styles.

  • Insert special characters.

  • Create a headline that spans multiple columns.

  • Adjust line and column breaks.

  • Hang punctuation outside a margin.

  • Add and format a drop cap.

  • Adjust line breaks.

  • Specify a tab with a leader and create a hanging indent.

  • Add a rule and shading to a paragraph.

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This lesson will take about 60 minutes to complete. To get the lesson files used in this chapter, download them from the web page for this book at adobepress.com/InDesignCIB2023. For more information, ...

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