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Creating alternating color jazz type

Creating alternating color jazz type

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Creating alternating color jazz type

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- [Instructor] Looking through a book of vintage album covers, I came across this and I thought, that would make a great type tip. I love the alternating colors, the color palette in general, and the way the baselines are slightly uneven. Here's couple of other examples of the alternating color in the headlines. So of course, it's easy to do the alternating color manually, just selecting characters one-by-one. But what if we were to, in InDesign, use GREP styles and nested styles to apply this. So I found a website to randomly generate me a blues name and this is what I came up with. And this is my result. Let me show you how I got there. I'm going to start with this. So I'd just like to show you the different components that I have, first of all. So there is a paragraph style called head applied to this first paragraph. And then another paragraph style based on head, applied to the venue. And I have four character styles, three of them are colors, off-white, gray, and green, and then…

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