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7. Working with Typography
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.
InDesign offers many features for fine-tuning typography, including drop caps for leading the eye into a paragraph, Optical Margin Alignment for hanging punctuation outside the edge of a frame, precision line-and-character-spacing controls, and the ability to automatically balance text in columns.
