Members-Only Video: How to Set Great-Looking Body Text in InDesign
Learn all the essential tips and techniques for setting great-looking type in long documents.
This article appears in Issue 49 of CreativePro Magazine.
If you have nine minutes, Nigel French can show you how to dramatically improve the appearance of body text in your InDesign documents. This video is packed with all the essential tips and techniques for setting great-looking type in long documents, including:
- Cleaning up common problems in manuscript with Find/Change and scripts
- Choosing point size, leading, and indents
- Kerning options
- Line length
- Hyphenation and Justification settings
- Numbering styles
- Optical Margin Alignment
- GREP styles to automatically fix short lines
It all adds up to a repeatable system for achieving professional quality type in InDesign.
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