InDesign: How to Get Better Justified Type (Video Tutorial)

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In this InDesign video, Charles Nix from Monotype demonstrates how he achieves balanced and visually pleasing fully-justified type. He explains the paragraph settings he changes to end up with fewer hyphens, better spacing, and fewer of those dreaded “rivers of white” throughout a block of text.
This comes from Charles’ “Mind the Gaps: Paying Attention to Spacing” session at the CreativePro InDesign+Type Summit. Check out all of our upcoming events: creativepro.com/events.
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@K9player03 8 ай бұрын

You are now watching a master at work

@AllesKiten Жыл бұрын

Thank you for these important hints! I had so many discussions in the past about the flow of the text.

@DGFalk 8 ай бұрын

SO incredibly helpful. I could geek out on this stuff all day. Thanks for the excellent, thoughtful, and concise content!

@CreativePro 8 ай бұрын

Geeking out on this stuff is a favorite pastime of ours, too!

@fourfan322 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic tutorial, keep up the great videos!

@dalenn_dnb Жыл бұрын

Brilliant tutorial. Thanks!

@NDakota79 Жыл бұрын

I have tested this and I can easily see even 1% glyph scaling on 9pt text in regular viewing distance with a font I know well. I would rather have some rivers than these distorted letters. Expect maybe in text passages where you can't rewrite and word spacing would get especially bad.

@hustlemotivates Жыл бұрын

The video really helped me with a print project, thanks my guy! Love

@massimobaita7178 Жыл бұрын

Thank You very much, Charles!

@michaelroussetos6123 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this explanation and typography study. I appreciate you.

@KookooruzArt Жыл бұрын

Brilliant! Thank you!

@Kuwandi Жыл бұрын

I’m an illustrator - turned designer, I bow to people who are masters of type design , and their extreme love of type setting….

@CreativePro Жыл бұрын

They are a different breed... and we are glad they exist! -EG

@mistertamura6190 10 ай бұрын

THANK YOU! I still wish there was a tool to easily doctor with partial issues elegantly, though. Like...selecting the word(s) that are causing trouble, and then let the software calculate the best possible adjustment/options for a fix.

@ellona3645 4 ай бұрын

Great tutorial, thank you! Would this setting basically work for every font?

@RusstafaB Жыл бұрын

Thank you very informative and useful information

@bradulovic82 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, it was very informative. p.s. There is a double space infront of "bridle-making" in the 11th line from the top, but it gets "fixed" when new Glyph Scaling settings are applied.

@HowieD1975 Жыл бұрын

LOVE technical stuff like this. I always get into debates with people when they ask what size should my text be in a magazine, brochure, book, online, packaging etc. The question I ask that person is how much text is needed? Most times they go over board especially in catalogs. Would love to see more tutorials like this one.

@CreativePro Жыл бұрын

We will keep that in mind. Thank you! -EG

@thepurpleufo Жыл бұрын

Great stuff...thank you.

@mortezafarhoudi Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Quality content, as always.

@CreativePro Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome!

@user-xt8kc4rf2o 29 күн бұрын

This blew my mind, thank you!

@ZoranImsiragic Жыл бұрын

Great! Very useful.

@deybour 9 ай бұрын

Life saver..thanks

@alfredog.g.7281 Жыл бұрын

Gracias por el buen e interesante vídeo! 👌

@zzynbl 7 ай бұрын

I'm a graphic design student justifying text for the first time - my teachers have always told us not to, I think because they've decided explaining all this is too technical for my course. Can anyone tell me if these settings are likely to work for most typefaces? Can I use them as a general rule of thumb? Or do I need to spend time experimenting to see what works best for each one I use? Thank you!

@albinlallalenell Ай бұрын

Awesome!

@professorrix215 Ай бұрын

"You're a wizard, Harry!"

@elzo_smid 6 ай бұрын

Very interesting and helpful. Please notice that audio seems to be 2 or 3 seconds earlier than the video. Glyph scaling, I admit it improves the general appearance, but as someone who learned to set type with lead type, it gives me horrible goosebumps. Brrrrr. :)

@Schmittyapolis 11 ай бұрын

There used to be a key command for justified text that replaced the word spacing by adjusting the letter spacing of the following characters. Shift - Spacebar maybe? I've used it so often it is a reflex causing me to forget the key command! What happened to that feature?

@c.t.8614 Жыл бұрын

Nice! Is there a way to watch a replay the full course?

@CreativePro Жыл бұрын

It was part of our “Type+Design Summit” and I believe virtual passes are still available. Check CreativePro.com for details!

@carrieharris1910 4 ай бұрын

I am self-publishing my own book and setting the type is scary!!!!

@CreativePro 4 ай бұрын

You can do it! 💪🏼

@trickee4262 Жыл бұрын

We do this but keep the jpg as the base and only paste the psd on top, so as not to bloat the file size with 2 PSDs

@TheCecyFernandes Жыл бұрын

OI, I need help. This large document, between one page and the next, appears this large space in white, PB. I can't solve the problem. The text threads will also disappear.

@AllesKiten Жыл бұрын

Using OpenSans with these parameters (German language) doesn't look really good and is already hard to read on computer. Letter spacing is too high. Word spacing is too small. Are there further recommendations or proposals for hyphenating and justification depending on font style, language (?), text in columns, device etc.

@laertdossantos Жыл бұрын

Hello, do these settings work for portuguese dictionary?

@CreativePro Жыл бұрын

You could probably start with these settings and try them on several paragraphs to see the results. Make your own set of defaults from there. -EG

@Kuwandi Жыл бұрын

This is “an absolute alien world “ to people in digital workspace - all the type setting focus goes out the door , there is an absolute disregard for type design in digital world ie. 3pt type in apps………?????