Objective:
- Create and modify type using the InDesign tools.
- Place type onto a page and format it using the Character and Paragraph Formatting Controls.
Student-Friendly Objective:
- I can use the Type tools and Palettes to create and modify type in InDesign so I can add text for people to read in my documents.
Vocabulary:
- Type Tool
- Type on a Path Tool
- Character Palette
- Character Formatting Controls
- Paragraph Formatting Controls
- Font
- Leading
- Kerning
- Tracking
- Vertical Scale
- Horizontal Scale
- Baseline
- Baseline Shift
- Skew
- Alignment (Left, Right, Center, Justified)
- Indent
- Drop Cap
Links:
Add Text and Art in Frames (Video)
Apply Color to an Object (Video)
Topics Discussed:
- Adobe InDesign CC 2021
Assignment:
- Follow along with the in-class demonstration, or watch the videos in the Links section above.
- In the same InDesign document that we have been working with this week, use the Pages Palette to add one additional page:
- Page 2: Your name in 72pt type across the top of the page, and two columns of 12pt overflowed placeholder text (placed with the “Fill with Placeholder Text” command).
- All paragraphs should:
- Start with a 2-line Drop Cap.
- Be Left Justified.
- Be double-spaced (adjust the leading).
- Have the tracking (space between letters), the text vertical width and horizontal height adjusted.
- When your document meets all the requirements, save it as “YOUR NAME – InDesign Week 1”
- Hang on to this document, as we will continue working on it this week and hand it in on Friday, August 27th.
Assigned: August 25th, 2021
Teacher Pacing Due Date: August 27th, 2021