InDesign CS5: for Typography

Delivery method
Classroom based, maximum 5 delegates

Course description

Introduction

• You already know more than you think about type
• Case study: newspaper mastheads
• What do typefaces say?

The character of type

• Different type personalities - classy, serious, fresh, authoritative, reliable or fun typeface
• Examples of type that really works

Serif and sans serif

• The origins of the serif
• Classic serif typefaces
• Classic sans-serif typefaces

Measuring type

• Traditional conventions; points, picas and ciceros

Leading and kerning

• Ways of controlling the vertical space between text
• Ways of controlling the horizontal space between characters
• Troublesome kerning pairs
• Optical kerning in InDesign

Suitable for
An Adobe authorised course covering the principles of type and how to produce typographically excellent documentation using InDesigns' powerful typographic features.

Requirements
You should have attended either the Introduction to Adobe InDesign course or the Adobe InDesign Migration course at Media Training or have an equivalent working knowledge.