Book description
Adobe InDesign is the world’s premier page-layout tool, and its user-friendly yet sophisticated typographic controls are a big reason why. This updated edition of Nigel French’s InDesign Type, the first book to focus exclusively on the typographic features of InDesign, provides a comprehensive overview of the application’s vast array of type capabilities, from the basics of character-level formatting to strategies for designing complex layouts using grids. With practical examples, loads of tips, and a wealth of illustrations, InDesign Type offers guiding principles for how to get the best-looking type in the most efficient way possible. InDesign Type is a rich resource for anyone who wants to master the fine points of typography and works with Adobe InDesign.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Getting Started
- Chapter 2. Getting Type on Your Page
- Chapter 3. Character Formats
- Chapter 4. Leading
- Chapter 5. Letterspacing, Tracking, and Kerning
- Chapter 6. Small (but Important) Details
- Chapter 7. Alignment
- Chapter 8. Paragraph Indents and Spacing
- Chapter 9. Breaking (and Not Breaking) Words, Lines, Paragraphs, and Pages
- Chapter 10. Tabs, Tables, and Lists
- Chapter 11. Drop Caps
- Chapter 12. Global Formatting with Styles
- Chapter 13. Working with Text Wraps
- Chapter 14. Pages, Margins, Columns, and Grids
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe® InDesign®, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2010
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: None
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