adobe indesign character formatting

CHARACTER FORMATTING• InDesign has a wide range of

Character styling controls to make your characters attractive, distinct or whatever you want it to be within the confinement of the program and all the other possible text modifications available

1. Panel Dock – The Character panel is located here, click on the Character panel and fly out menu will appear.

Three locations of the Character Styling Controls

2. Type Menu– under this drop down menu you will find character style options.

Three locations of the Character Styling Controls

3. Control Panel – just under the menu bar are the Character style controls. To activate, simply select the Type Tool and the Character style control is active and visible.

Three locations of the Character Styling Controls

1. Font Selection – Click on this drop down menu and you will see the different fonts available in your computer.

2. Font Style – will determine the look of your font whether is normal, bold, italics, condensed, narrow.

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3. Font Size – determines the size of the font. The higher the number the bigger is the size.

4. Leading menu – determines the spacing between lines of the character, the smaller the value the closer are the characters to one another between lines.

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5. Kerning Menu – determines the spacing between characters.

6. Tracking Menu – also known as range kerning; this option will allow you to adjust spacing to all characters in a selection.

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7. Vertical Scaling – This option gives you the freedom to resize the character vertically.

8. Baseline Shift – movement of a character away from the base either up or down.

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9. Horizontal Scaling – allows you the change the size of the character horizontally.

10. Skewing Character – in degrees, this option allows you to slant or skew the character to the number of degree angle you apply.

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17. Fill – fills color style to a character.18. Stroke – insert stroke style in a character.

Character Control Panel

11. All Caps12. Small Caps13. Superscript14. Subscript15. Underline16. Strike through

Character Control Panel