Instant InDesign: Designing Templates for Fast and Efficient Page Layout

Creating Character Styles

Before you create any character styles, it’s very important to make paragraph styles and apply them to your sample text first. Only the attributes that are different from those defined by the applied paragraph style—such as the type style and character color—are made part of the character style. All other attributes are left undefined (Figure 10.37). This important first step prevents character styles from applying attributes that are already applied by a paragraph style and keeps you from having to edit both paragraph and character styles when the text formatting in your template needs to be modified.

Figure 10.37. A character style created before a paragraph style was applied (A) and the same character style created ...