InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2

Chapter 13. Stylin’ with Paragraph and Character Styles

STYLES HAVE BEEN AROUND since the dawn of desktop publishing. Over the years they have evolved in their ease of use and range of capabilities. A bed-rock feature of any page layout program, styles represent humankind’s greatest advance in the field of digital page layout. Styles are to graphic designers what fire was to prehistoric people.

Defining Our Terms

Paragraph Styles and Character Styles are a collection of attributes that can be applied to text with a single click. Paragraph Styles, as their name suggests, are applied to the whole paragraph; Character Styles are applied to a selected range of text within a paragraph. Collectively I will refer to the Paragraph Styles, Character Styles, ...