Indesign Type: Professional Typography

Adobe InDesign is the world’s premier page-layout tool, and its user-friendly yet sophisticated typographic controls are a big reason why. This updated edition of Nigel French’s InDesign Type, 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, from the basics of character-level formatting to strategies for designing complex layouts using grids.

It's no mystery why InDesign has become the premier page layout program: It offers great tools, including friendly yet-sophisticated typographic controls. Here to show users how to take advantage of them is the long-awaited update to the book devoted solely to that topic. Everyone, from graphics pros migrating from QuarkXPress, to hobbyists producing fancy invites and book-length projects, will appreciate this guide's finely tuned focus on everything typographic. To take full advantage of InDesign's typographic tools, readers must understand the principles guiding their use. Author Nigel French recognizes this and addresses both the whys and the hows of good typography.

It's no mystery why InDesign has become the premier page layout program: 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.