ADOBE INDESIGN PRACTICE #1
Working with Typestyles
Objective:
1. Working with Picas
2. To use Typestyles and explore how they affect the way we read type. Learn what
typestyles are appropriate for which uses cases.
3. Learn about Figure Styles and why they are used.
4. Learn about Letterspacing, Word Spacing, Tracking, and Kerning.
Document Setup
Document Specs
Open Adobe InDesign
Units: We will be working in Picas as a unit of measurement
Size: 60px60p
Pages: 2 Non-facing
Columns: 2
Gutter: 8p (This will make our Column width 23p)
Margins: Top 6p, Bottom 2p6, Left 4p, Right 4p
Text Setup
Your Name:
Typeface: Adobe Garamond Pro Regular
Size: 14pt
Alignment: Centered
Goes in the header Margin
Align the base of the text box to the margin line but not to rest
the text on the margin line (give it room the breath)
Paragraph Text to start with:
Typeface: Adobe Garamond Pro Regular
Size: 11/13
Alignment: Flush Left Ragged Right
Assignment
Page 1 – Column 1
Paragraph 1: Basic
Paste the provided body copy into column 1
Format the text:
Title Type Style: Adobe Garamond Pro – Bold
Body Type Style: Adobe Garamond Pro – Regular
Size: 11/13
Alignment: Flush Left Ragged Right
Make sure you turn off the hyphens
Paragraph 2: Proportional Oldstyle SmallCap Abbreviations
Copy paragraph 1 and paste it
Set paragraph to Proportional Oldstyle
Change Abbreviations to Small Caps
Paragraph 3: Italic
Copy paragraph 2 and paste it
Set the Type Style to Italic
Paragraph 4: Bold
Copy paragraph 2 and paste it
Set the Type Style to Bold
Page 1 – Column 2
Paragraph 5: All Caps
Copy paragraph 2 and paste it
Set Type to All Caps
Set Figure Style to Proportional Lining
Paragraph 6: Small Caps
Copy paragraph 2 and paste it
Set Type to Small Caps
Set Figure Style to Proportional Oldstyle
Page 2 – Column 1
Paragraph 1: Tight Wordspacing
Copy paragraph 2 and paste it
Tighten the wordspacing
Paragraph 2: Tight Letterspacing
Copy paragraph 2 and paste it
Tighten the letterspacing
Paragraph 3: Tight Wordspacing & Letterspacing
Copy paragraph 2 and paste it
Tighten the wordspacing & letterspacing
Paragraph 4: Tracking
Copy paragraph 2 and paste it in to a seperate text box
Make the text box about half the width of the column
Set the alignment to Justified, last line aligned left
Adjust the tracking to get rid of rivers
Don’t leave any widows
Page 2 – Column 2
Paragraph 5
Title: Kerning 11/13 Adobe Garamond Bold
Past the words Russian Soyuz
Adobe Garamond Pro Regular 30/72
Line 1: Do not further adjust the settings
Line 2: Copy and paste line 1, Set Tracking to
100
Line 3: Copy and paste line 2, Adjust Kerning
Assets
Body Copy
On October 1, 1958, NASA was created “to provide for research into the problems of flight within
and outside the Earth’s atmosphere and for other purposes.” NASA’s birth was directly related to the
pressures of national defense, as the U.S. and the USSR were engaged in a contest over the
ideologies and allegiances of nonaligned nations. Space exploration was a major area of contest and
became known as the space race.
Kerning Paragraph
Russian Soyuz2
