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Introduction to InDesign tips
How different digital design is now from manual lettering and typesetting from printouts
Letraset catalogues – Andy Ball
When creating masters drag and drop onto document pages, or right click
Master presets to consider – title, contents, heavy copy, light copy, image focused
In a document consider:
Page numbers
Title
Subheading
Body copy
Quotes
Images
Captions
Background
Generally people struggle to write sentences longer than ten words; this is why newspapers are designed with columns
Margins – books will be higher on the inside and smaller on outside margins to allow for folding
Also issuu (my personal go to)
Typefaces for editorial: Univers has a lot of weights
Check out:
https://www.typewolf.com/
https://fontjoy.com/
https://fontsinuse.com/
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/
https://www.design-seeds.com/
https://colorhunt.co/
Explore grading / colour books for film which may help with colour palette knowledge for design
https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel
Save character styles by writing a style and save (window > styles > character styles); this is especially useful when needing to change colours throughout whole document
Stock images:
https://unsplash.com/
https://www.pexels.com/
File > Package will save all content in a document and sort it in the folder i.e. to send to printers
Turn your designs upside down to suss out shape and composition; colour etc. and check all angles are effective
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