Typography Books: InDesign Type - Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign (9780321685360) By Nigel French

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InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign
  • Title: InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign
  • Author: Nigel French
  • Publisher: Adobe Press
  • Published Date: July 2010
  • ISBN: 978-0-321-68536-0
  • Pages: 288
  • Format: Paperback
  • Price:   United Kingdom   USA
The Book
  • Adobe InDesign is the world’s premier page layout tool with user-friendly and sophisticated typographic controls
  • 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
  • Practical examples, loads of tips, and a wealth of illustrations
  • Offers guiding principles for how to get the best-looking type in the most efficient way possible
  • Rich resource for anyone who wants to master typography and works with Adobe InDesign
The Author

Nigel French - Graphic designer, photographer, author and teacher living in Brighton, UK. In San Francisco he operated his design business, Small World Productions. Later became the director of the graphic and interactive design program at UC Berkeley Extension. Author of Photoshop Unmasked and several titles.

Inside the Book
  • Getting started
  • Getting type on your page
  • Typography and language
  • Character formats
  • Leading
  • Letterspacing, Tracking and Kerning
  • Small (but important) details
  • Alignment
  • Paragraph indents and spacing
  • Breaking (and not breaking) words, lines, paragraphs and pages
  • Tabs, tables and lists
  • Drop caps
  • Global formatting with styles
  • Working with text wraps
  • Pages, margins, columns and grids
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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