![]() ![]() Today I got the opportunity to play with a computer screen and mouse and keyboard setup and the improvement to the experience of playing the game felt profound. In layout design, type is your most important medium to play with.With a gamepad you could either aim freely, which did not really work because of the super fast combat in the game, or you could aim with the help of a lock-on feature, which basically took out any difficulty from the game. Sure, images are a big deal too - but it’s easy to put all of your stock in the color and fun of an image when it’s the creative manipulation text that can really make your design engaging. You need to be aware of everything including font choice, typeface combinations, paragraph construction, type’s relationship to the featured images and white space. To help tackle all of these distinct challenges, InDesign has come up with a toolbox of easy tricks to help you do so efficiently. One of the best new features in the Creative Cloud version of Adobe InDesign is the upgraded typeface menu. It offers the ability both the filter out specific typefaces you’re looking for, as well as to sample those typefaces in your document. To access the menu, click on the Type (T) tool and then move your cursor up to the top left corner and make sure the button with an “A” on it, Character Formatting Controls, is highlighted, as opposed to the “P,” which is the Paragraph Formatting Controls and which we’ll be using later on. ![]() Favorites: We all have our favorite typefaces that we love using project to project.InDesign allows you to star your favorite fonts on the type menu and pull them up together by clicking on the star filter at the top of the menu, shown here in the image to the left. Imported Typefaces: The same goes for fonts that you download outside of the program.There are millions of amazing fonts out there, and Adobe has created a partnership with Typekit, a handy font subscription service, to make it easy to find and import a couple of thousands of new ones - for free with subscription! The type menu allows you to filter for just the fonts you’ve imported from Typekit, as well (as seen on the right). Characteristics: You can also search for fonts with specific characteristics. For example, if you know you want your font to be bold, you can type “Bold” into the search box to find any font with that specific kind of typeface. The same goes for italic, semi bold, light, condensed, or whatever other style you can think of.Īn arguably even more brilliant addition is the ability to see what your typeface possibilities look like in action, without having to select one to preview it, going back and forth from the menu every single time.Īll you have to do is highlight the text that you want to sample, and use the up and down arrows to scroll through different typefaces. This won’t actually select the font for you, so when you’ve settled on one, only then click on the it to use in your document. Typekit is a super easy way to find new typefaces without having to worry about tracking down licensing, as it’s all been researched and is at the site for you. The program comes as part of a subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud, making it painfully easy to legally download and add fonts to your work. Properties: Weight, width, contrast, etc.Ĭlick on the font family that you want, review the typeface options and click on “sync” - the font will be easily synched to your open InDesign! 3.Recommended: For paragraphs vs headings.Classification: Serif/Sans serif/slab Serif, etc.Head to Typekit to browse through fonts, looking for: You can either access the site by clicking on the option we saw above in the type menu or by heading to type in the main menu and “Add Fonts from Typekit”. This time we’re going to move away from the Text Tool into working directly with the image. Click on the image you want to work with, and the text wrap options - indicated with the orange arrow above. ![]()
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