Lynda.com InDesign CS4 Typography

Author: Nigel French | Duration (hr:min): 07:04 | Language: English | 1DVD | Released on: 9/10/2009 | Exercise files: Yes | Size ( Compressed ): 589MB | Size ( After Extraction ): 660MB

Description
InDesign CS4: Typography explores the numerous type options, type-related features, and type-specific preferences of Adobe InDesign CS4. Using practical, real-world examples, instructor and designer Nigel French explains the purpose of each feature and describes the conventions for how and when to use it. Nigel dissects the anatomy of a typeface and defines the terminology needed for the successful application of typography. He moves from the micro to the macro level, addressing such issues as choosing page size; determining the size of margins; adjusting number columns; and achieving a clean, structured look with baseline grids. This course is essential for anyone looking to expand their work from just laying out a page to understanding the hows and whys of typography. Exercise files accompany this course.
Topics include:

* Choosing and combining typefaces
* Understanding leading and how it relates to type size and column width
* Learning the proper use of white space and break characters
* Understanding the finer points of kerning and tracking
* Applying global formatting with paragraph, character, and object styles
* Avoiding common problems associated with justified type and text wraps


Table Of Contents
Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files

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

2. Placing and Flowing Text
Working with text frames
Manual text flow
Auto-flowing text
Auto-flowing without adding pages
Semiautomatic text flow
Mocking up pages with placeholder text
Placing multiple text files
Stretching a headline across columns
Cleaning up text

3. Character Formatting
Text essentials
Italic and oblique type
Condensed and extended type
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


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