Indesign Type: Professional Typography With Adobe Indesign Cs2

by Nigel French

It's no mystery why InDesign has become the premier page layout It offers great tools-not least among them its sophisticated typographic controls. Here to show you how to take advantage of them is the first book devoted solely to that topic. Whether you're a graphics pros migrating from InDesign's long-entrenched competitor QuarkXPress or a hobbyists producing fancy invites and book-length projects, you'll appreciate this guide's finely tuned focus on everything typographic. Realizing that to take full advantage of InDesign's typographic tools, you must understand the principles guiding their use, author Nigel French addresses both the whys and the hows of good typography. Using practical examples, and loads of tips, Nigel provides a comprehensive overview of all of InDesign's type features, including the Paragraph Composer, optical kerning, and its support for OpenType fonts. Starting with character formats and then moving through parag

270 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Rahmat Romadon]

Nice book for beginner in typography. Don't look on the software but it contains the basics for type-setting. Useful for entrepreneur on graphic design!

[Gevera Piedmont]

A quick concise read, sadly marred by poor proofreading (lots of small mistakes). It'll go on the reference shelf and not in the sell pile.

[Mila]

This would be good if you have Adobe In Design but I don't and I grabbed it thinking it was about designing type.