Introduction to Adobe InDesign
Course 2 - Texts and Tables: Character attributes
By Javier Alcaraz , Editorial and Typeface Designer
About the video: Character attributes
Overview
“In this lesson we will begin by understanding the difference InDesign makes between character and paragraph. We will see more attributes of important characters: box, position, displacement and skew. In addition, I will place special emphasis on adjusting spacing through prose and coupling.”
In this video lesson Javier Alcaraz addresses the topic: Character attributes, 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 we will start seeing the difference between character attributes and paragraph attributes. I will show you where to choose a typographic font, its variables, how to give it body and interline and also some adjustments of the typographic form. Let's start Giving attributes to the text implies having clear the differences between character attributes and those of paragraph. The first, include features that affect the characters, or, rather, to the glyphs, which are the drawings that characters can have But also They can affect a set of glyphs. These attributes they can be the t...”
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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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