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Creating movie poster credits
From the course: Type Tips
Creating movie poster credits
- [Nigel] Hi, I'm Nigel French, welcome to Type Tips. This week, I have a tip about creating movie poster credits. The challenge here is that we have the smaller type on two lines next to the larger type, side-by-side paragraphs, which in InDesign, does present something of a challenge. One way to attempt this would be to use tables and to have each piece of text in its own table cell, but the problem there is that you cannot auto-fit columns to your text, so you have to manually adjust the width of the columns and therefore, it takes a bit longer than you'd like. So, instead, I am going to use inline objects and object styles. The style of font that I'm using here is a very compressed typeface, this one is actually called Balboa Extra Condensed. You'll find that on Adobe Fonts, but if you don't have access to Adobe Fonts, there's this front here, Movie Letters, on dafont.com, which would serve the same purpose. So, let me come and turn on Layout Two, where I have my starting text all…
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