Introduction to Adobe InDesign
Course 2 - Texts and Tables: Digital typography
By Javier Alcaraz , Editorial and Typeface Designer
About the video: Digital typography
Overview
“We will begin by marking similarities and differences between the three most popular digital typography formats. Then I will show you how to synchronize fonts from Adobe Fonts to use in your design. I will teach you three ways to bring a text to InDesign and how to create a base grid to organize your typographic composition. ”
In this video lesson Javier Alcaraz addresses the topic: Digital typography, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 2 - Texts and Tables. Learn the essentials for working with text and tables in your editorial project.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I will explain digital typography. We will see the different formats and what its main attributes are. Next, we will place an external text into the InDesign program and finally we will structure the page with a typographic grid. Let's start at once. We will talk about digital typography formats. Although there are more formats than those mentioned here, no doubt these three are the most important for digital typography. Type 1 or Type 1 is the patriarch of these formats and it’s really admirable what they were doing to carry quality typography to the digital environments of...”
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Course summary for: Course 2 - Texts and Tables
Javier Alcaraz
By Javier Alcaraz
Javier Alcaraz is a graphic designer specializing in Typographic Design and Art Direction for Editorial Design. He began his design career for Argentina newspapers and worked on developing publications and institutional communication in Ecuador. In 2004, he left Argentina for Mexico, where he worked for important publishing houses like Grupo Media and Expansión.
In 2011, he founded elcerezo, a studio that works on editorial design, branding, and typeface design for clients in Latin America and Europe, including Google, the Mexican Ministry of Culture, TetraPack, and Forbes. He currently resides in Spain.
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