Introduction to Adobe InDesign
Course 2 - Texts and Tables: Paragraph attributes
By Javier Alcaraz , Editorial and Typeface Designer
About the video: Paragraph attributes
Overview
“We will start by differentiating paragraph attributes from character ones. I will show you where and how these attributes are controlled and applied and we will see the options of alignment, side or indentation, and how to create a paragraph with a chapter letter.”
In this video lesson Javier Alcaraz addresses the topic: Paragraph 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
“Today we will learn the importance of not giving character attributes to a paragraph and vice versa. I will teach you how to configure indents, alignments and capitulants. I show you how. As we saw, the attributes for character and paragraph are not the same. It is important that you know how to differentiate them. A paragraph contains characters, so it can include its attributes as a typographic family, style, interlected, but only one paragraph can define structural characteristics. Next we will see some of these attributes as alignment or bleeding. To activate the options that allow give...”
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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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