InDesign CS4: Typography Training DVD

Introduction

• Welcome Demo
• Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started

• Type anatomy and terminology Demo
• Type classification Demo
• What's in a name? (Typeface interpretations) Demo
• Understanding varieties of type styles Demo
• Setting preferences, workspace, and custom keyboard shortcuts Demo

2. Placing and Flowing Text

• Working with text frames Demo
• Manual text flow Demo
• Auto-flowing text Demo
• Auto-flowing without adding pages Demo
• Semiautomatic text flow Demo
• Mocking up pages with placeholder text Demo
• Placing multiple text files Demo
• Stretching a headline across columns Demo
• Cleaning up text

3. Character Formatting

• Text essentials
• Italic and oblique type
• Condensed and extended type Demo
• All caps
• Small caps
• Underlining type
• Using superscript and subscript
• Using baseline shift

4. Choosing and Combining Typefaces

• Practical typefaces
• Historical typefaces
• Using contrast
• Setting X-height
• Combining typefaces

5. Leading

• Setting leading
• Auto-leading and why to avoid it
• Leading shortcuts and preferences
• The one time to use auto-leading
• Calculating number of lines
• Leading and readability
• Optical leading

6. Kerning and Tracking

• Understanding the difference between kerning and tracking
• Metrics kerning vs. optical kerning
• Using kerning to avoid character collisions
• How tracking affects readability
• Adjusting word spaces only
• Applying tracking as exception-only
• Kerning and tracking preferences

7. Small (But Important) Details

• Typographer's quotes, apostrophes, and primes
• Fractions
• Ellipses
• Dashes
• Accents and diacritical marks
• White space characters
• Ligatures and diphthongs
• Numerals
• Ornaments
• Swashes
• Optical sizes

8. Alignment

• The four basic types of alignment
• Left or ragged right alignment
• Justified (left justified) alignment
• Hyphenation and optical margin alignment
• Center alignment
• Right alignment
• Aligning to or away from the spine
• Combining alignments
• The Adobe Paragraph Composer and Single Line Composer
• Hanging punctuation
• Vertical alignment

9. Indents and Spacing

• Using first-line indents versus paragraph spacing
• Using indent alternatives
• Applying a left indent
• Creating last-line indents
• Reinforcing visual relationships with paragraph spacing

10. Breaking Paragraphs

• Line breaks and discretionary hyphens
• Balancing ragged lines
• Using no-break and non-breaking characters
• Using Keep Options to keep with next lines
• Starting chapter numbers on a new page
• Starting paragraphs in the next frame

11. Tabs, Tables, and Lists

• Understanding the different types of tabs
• Setting table text
• Creating a bullet list
• Creating a numbered list

12. Using Drop Caps

• The purpose of drop caps
• Drop-cap examples
• Aligning left edge and scaling for descenders
• Navigating tricky drop caps
• Creating a nested style drop cap
• Other uses of drop caps

13. Global Formatting with Styles

• Efficient and consistent formatting
• Converting local formatting to character styles
• Using a GREP style
• Establishing hierarchy
• Creating nested styles
• Creating and applying sequential styles
• Styling callout boxes and fitting pictures with object styles
• Repurposing styles from other documents
• Using paragraph rules creatively

14. Page Size, Margins, Columns, and Baseline Grids

• Choosing page size
• Setting margins
• Determining the size of your type area
• Column grid strategies
• Ensuring cross-alignment with baseline grids
• Aligning images to cap height

15. Working with Text Wraps

• Using good text-wrap sense
• Manually adjusting the text-wrap offset
• Using text wraps for flexible layouts
• Creating inverted text wraps
• Setting text wrapping preferences

Conclusion

• Goodbye