Adobe® InDesign® CS6 Classroom in a Book®

7. Working with Typography

Lesson Overview

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

• Customize and use the baseline grid.

• Adjust vertical and horizontal text spacing.

• Change fonts and type styles.

• Insert special characters from OpenType fonts.

• Create a headline that spans multiple columns.

• Balance the text in columns.

• Hang punctuation outside a margin.

• Add and format a drop cap.

• Apply the Adobe Paragraph and Adobe Single-line Composers.

• Specify a tab with a leader.

• Create a hanging indent.

• Add a rule to a paragraph.

This lesson will take approximately 60 minutes.

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