From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 2
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Setting a drop cap or initial cap - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 2
Setting a drop cap or initial cap
- [Voiceover] The use of decorative first letters has evolved from a long tradition stretching back to before the invention of the printing press. The purpose of the initial letter, or versal, was to call attention to the beginning of the book. In 1455, when Gutenberg printed his 42 line bible, the first book to be printed in the Western world with movable type, he acknowledged the importance of this tradition by leaving space in the printed text for a scribe to add a decorative first letter. Contemporary magazine and book publishing continues this centuries old tradition by commonly beginning chapters and articles with large initial letters. This treatment can be incorporated into a paragraph style or applied locally through the control panel. On the paragraph formats, this is the option that we want, the drop cap number of lines. And I'm going to sink four lines into this paragraph. Now a drop cap is also an opportunity to repeat the signature color of a piece. So I'm going to…
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