Overlooked Typography Essentials

Beautiful typography is built on details, and InDesign has more ways to refine those details than most designers ever discover. This session reveals essential typography features that are easy to miss, misunderstand, or leave at their defaults.

Explore practical ways to improve letter and word spacing, line breaks, alignment, and readability. You’ll learn how key settings work, when they matter, how they work together, and how a few thoughtful adjustments can make a noticeable difference.

Topics include:

• Improve line endings with Adobe Paragraph Composer and Balance Ragged Lines
• Fine-tune hyphenation and justification settings
• Compare optical and metric kerning
• Control awkward breaks, widows, and orphans
• Discover how OpenType font features can help make your type more professional