Type Tips Weekly

- [Nigel] Hi, I'm Nigel French. … Welcome to Type Tips. … This week, I want to talk about … working with infographics in design. … I have a very simple infographic, … which is just basically a list of items, … each one preceded by a number. … And these different items follow a sequence of colors. … And this sequence is consistent throughout the publication, … derived from the color palette of the project. … So there are quite a few things going on here … in this infographic box. … We have sequential styles, … meaning that when I apply the styles to this text, … it first applies the infographic head, … then infographic number 1, 2, 3, etc. … And each of these Paragraph Styles includes a Nested Style, … which applies the relevant color to that paragraph. … But the real point I want to make … is that I am using here Vertical Justification, … something that typically I like to avoid, … but I think it can be very useful … when you are pairing sidebar or some sort of infographic box … by the side of your body text, …