Adobe InDesign from Beginner to Advanced
Course 2: Layout and Typography: Baseline, Hyphenation and Justification
By Leandro Rodrigues , Graphic Designer and Art Director
Joined March 2020
About the video: Baseline, Hyphenation and Justification
Overview
“In this unit, I will explain how to configure the Baseline "Grid", "Hyphenation" and "Justification" of text paragraphs.”
In this video lesson Leandro Rodrigues addresses the topic: Baseline, Hyphenation and Justification, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 2: Layout and Typography. Learn to work with the key elements of InDesign.
Partial transcription of the video
“CLASS 6 Baseline, Hyphenation and Justification INTRODUCTION TO INDESIGN / COURSE 2 In this unit, I’ll show you important features for the layout of a good flowing text. There are three: baseline, hyphenation and justification. We will see? Let's start with baseline. To configure our baseline, we can go to the InDesign menu, Preferences and choose the Grids option. Here we can choose the color of the baseline guides, set the beginning, which starts at the top of the page. That is, straight from the edge, or from the margins. We can define the measure of each module. In this case, we will le...”
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Leandro Rodrigues
By Leandro Rodrigues
Through his extensive professional and academic experience, Leandro Rodrigues combines his passions for graphic design, publishing, and art direction to help bring life and personality to large-scale graphic content and digital projects.
With studies in graphic design and a postgrad degree in Art Direction for Communication from the Centro Universitário SENAC in São Paulo, Leandro has worked for over ten years in publishing and as a professor.
He has held art director and graphic design positions at the publishing house Maquinaria Studio and the digital marketing agency AgMN. He is a visiting Digital Design professor at SENAC São Paulo, as well as a director and art editor for Oeste magazine. Today, he is a Senior Designer in a branding consulting studio.
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