InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign, Fourth Edition

Chapter 2

Type on the Page

Typography begins with a single character, and putting type on your page is about as fundamental as InDesign skills get. There are several approaches to getting type on the page. You’ll use all of them at one time or another. Let’s begin with the most elemental.

Text Frames

In InDesign, text frames hold your type. To be a stickler for the nomenclature, we’re talking text frames, not text boxes. Each independent section of text is referred to as a story. A story can contain a single character in a single text frame, hundreds of pages of “threaded” text frames, or anything between. An InDesign document typically contains multiple stories, as would a newspaper or magazine. At the end of each story, if the hidden characters ...