7 Working with Typography

Lesson Overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

  • Customize and use the baseline grid.

  • Adjust vertical and horizontal text spacing.

  • Change fonts and type styles.

  • Insert special characters from OpenType fonts.

  • Create a headline that spans multiple columns.

  • Balance the text in columns.

  • Hang punctuation outside a margin.

  • Add and format a drop cap.

  • Adjust line breaks.

  • Specify a tab with a leader and create a hanging indent.

  • Add a rule and shading to a paragraph.

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This lesson will take approximately 60 minutes to complete.

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