Designing with Rules, Borders, and Shading
This article appeared in Issue 144 of InDesign Magazine.Creative ways to highlight text content in InDesign
Any fan of film noir can tell you that, sometimes, the best way to bring attention to a subject is to cast it into shadow (Figure 1).
We are quite accustomed to making some important word or phrase bold or perhaps changing its color to apply emphasis. But we should also consider surrounding notable text with color or shadow. Over the years, InDesign has possessed features that let us do this in a number of ways. Let’s see what’s at our disposal.
Figure 1. The brilliant chiaroscuro cinematography of Gregg Toland and Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (1941)
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the problem with the borders example is if one of the paragraphs happen to end at the bottom of the page, then InDesign will not leave the bottom of the border open.