InDesign Type : Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2

by French, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780321385444
• ISBN10: 0321385446
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Adobe Press

Summary

The sophisticated typographic controls Adobe InDesign offers have made it today's premier page layout tool. Now, Nigel French's InDesign Type, the first book to focus exclusively on typographic features, provides users a comprehensive overview of the application's vast array of type capabilities-from basic character-level formatting to advanced techniques using nested styles. Through practical examples and a wealth of color and black-and-white illustrations, InDesign Type shows how features such as the Adobe Paragraph Composer, Optical Kerning, and support for OpenType fonts work and how users can efficiently produce professional type treatments. Simply put, InDesign Type is a rich resource for anyone interested in producing betterlooking type with Adobe InDesign. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Nigel French is a consultant for IPC Media in London

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
PART I Character Formats	1	(96)
CHAPTER 1 Getting Started	3	(10)
An InDesign Type Map: Where to Find Stuff	4	(4)
Viewing Your Page	8	(2)
Creating a Typography Workspace	10	(2)
Up Next	12	(1)
CHAPTER 2 Going with the Flow	13	(12)
A Blank Sheet: Typing on Your Page	14	(1)
Text Flow	15	(2)
Threading Text Frames	17	(3)
Using Placeholder Text	20	(2)
Pasting Text	22	(1)
Importing Word Text	22	(1)
Up Next	23	(2)
CHAPTER 3 Character Reference	25	(20)
Less is More, Maybe	26	(1)
Type Anatomy	27	(1)
Type Classification	28	(7)
Character Formatting Options	35	(7)
Readability	42	(2)
Up Next	44	(1)
CHAPTER 4 Getting the Lead Out	45	(12)
(Not) Using Auto Leading	51	(2)
Keep It Consistent, Except...	53	(2)
Leading Menu Options and Keyboard Shortcuts	55	(1)
See Also	55	(1)
Up Next	55	(2)
CHAPTER 5 Kern, Baby, Kern	57	(12)
When to Kern	58	(1)
Metrics Kerning	59	(1)
Optical Kerning	59	(2)
Manual Kerning	61	(1)
How Much to Kern	62	(1)
Tracking	63	(1)
When to Track	64	(3)
Controlling Widows and Orphans	67	(1)
Up Next	68	(1)
CHAPTER 6 Sweating the Small Stuff: Special Characters, White Space, and Glyphs	69	(18)
Typographer's Quotes	70	(1)
Apostrophes	71	(1)
Dashes	72	(1)
Ellipses	73	(1)
End Marks	74	(1)
White Space Characters	75	(4)
The Glyphs Palette	79	(5)
Footnotes	84	(2)
Up Next	86	(1)
CHAPTER 7 OpenType: The New Frontier in Font Technology	87	(10)
Ligatures	89	(2)
Discretionary Ligatures	91	(1)
Ordinals/Raised and Lowered Characters	91	(1)
Swash Characters	92	(1)
Titling Alternates	92	(1)
Small Caps	92	(1)
Fractions	92	(1)
Oldstyle Figures	93	(1)
Contextual Alternates	93	(1)
Opticals	94	(1)
Glyph Positioning	94	(1)
Stylistic Sets	95	(1)
Up Next	95	(2)
PART II Paragraph Formats	97	(82)
CHAPTER 8 Aligning Your Type	99	(20)
Centering Type	102	(2)
Clean Shaven or Rugged: Justified vs. Ragged Type	104	(1)
How InDesign Justifies Type	105	(6)
Balancing Ragged Lines	111	(2)
Right-Aligned Type	113	(1)
Optical Margin Alignment	113	(2)
Indent to Here	115	(1)
Vertical Alignment	116	(1)
Up Next	117	(2)
CHAPTER 9 Paragraph Indents and Spacing	119	(14)
First-Line Indents	120	(6)
Space Before and Space After	126	(4)
Paragraph Indents	130	(1)
Up Next	131	(2)
CHAPTER 10 First Impressions: Creating Great Opening Paragraphs	133	(16)
Creating a Simple Drop Cap	136	(1)
Drop Cap Aesthetics	137	(7)
Tricks with Drop Caps	144	(2)
Coming Unstuck with Drop Caps	146	(1)
Up Next	147	(2)
CHAPTER 11 Don't Fear the Hyphen	149	(12)
Hyphenation Options	150	(3)
Discretionary Hyphens and Nonbreaking Hyphens	153	(1)
Hyphenation and User Dictionaries	154	(5)
Up Next	159	(2)
CHAPTER 12 Mastering Tabs and Tables	161	(18)
Working with Tables	165	(1)
Creating a Table	166	(7)
Working with Rows and Columns	173	(1)
Working with Table Cells	174	(4)
Up Next	178	(1)
PART III Styles	179	(30)
CHAPTER 13 Stylin' with Paragraph and Character Styles	181	(18)
Creating Styles	183	(4)
Applying Styles	187	(3)
Editing Styles	190	(1)
Redefining Styles	190	(1)
Creating Default Styles	191	(1)
A Typical Style Sheet	191	(6)
Up Next	197	(2)
CHAPTER 14 Mo' Style	199	(10)
Paragraph Rules	200	(2)
Sequential Styles	202	(1)
Nested Styles	202	(4)
Object Styles	206	(2)
Up Next	208	(1)
PART IV Page Layout	209	(54)
CHAPTER 15 Setting Up Your Document	211	(14)
Choosing a Page Size	213	(1)
Determining Margins	214	(2)
Determining Column Width	216	(3)
Changing Columns	219	(1)
Break Characters	220	(1)
Page Numbers	220	(1)
Section Markers	221	(1)
Layers	222	(1)
Up Next	223	(2)
CHAPTER 16 Everything in Its Right Place: Using Grids	225	(12)
Things to Consider	226	(2)
Your Grid Tool Kit	228	(3)
Calculating the Height of the Type Area	231	(1)
Align to Grid	231	(2)
First Baseline Options	233	(1)
Snap to Guides	234	(1)
Create Guides	235	(1)
Up Next	235	(2)
CHAPTER 17 Text Wraps:The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	237	(12)
Applying Text Wraps	238	(3)
Wrapping Type Around Irregularly Shaped Graphics	241	(1)
Text Wrap Preferences	242	(3)
Ignoring Text Wrap	245	(1)
Anchored Objects	246	(2)
Up Next	248	(1)
CHAPTER 18 Type Effects	249	(14)
Gradient Type	250	(1)
Stroked Type	251	(2)
Drop Shadows	253	(1)
Custom Type with Create Outlines	254	(3)
Path Type	257	(1)
Vertical (Stacked) Alignment	258	(1)
Transparency Effects	259	(1)
Shaping Text Frames	260	(1)
Sheared Type	261	(2)
Index	263