Learn how to use and where to find InDesign's various spacing characters.
- [Voiceover] InDesign has several different widths…of spacing character.…They're all available on the white space menu.…I'll just insert my cursor right there,…come to the Type menu, Insert White Space,…and here they all are.…So in terms of their relative sizes,…the biggest of them is the em space,…and here we see the em space and the en space,…and a word space for context.…So both the em and the en, bigger than a word space.…
But the em space is the size of your type,…so if your type size is 12, your em space is 12.…Your type size is 24, your em space is 24, et cetera.…En space is half that, and then on down.…So when would you use these?…Well, in the previous movie, I was talking about em dashes,…and em dashes a lot of people prefer…to put a thin space either side of the em dash.…Here's a time when you might favor en spaces or em spaces,…if you have a bullet list, and you feel like…there's just not enough room between the bullet character…and the opening character when you use a regular word space.…
This is assuming that you don't want…
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6/17/2016- Creating a typographic workspace
- Understanding the anatomy and terminology of type
- Choosing typefaces
- Sizing and scaling type
- Formatting characters
- Adjusting leading (aka line spacing)
- Tracking and kerning
- Using the Glyphs panel
- Adding special characters: dashes, quotes, ellipses, and more
- Using OpenType features like ligatures and fractions
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 4s
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Exercise files1m 21s
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1. Choosing and Combining Typefaces
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Type anatomy and terminology2m 34s
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Type naming conventions1m 25s
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Using Typekit3m 37s
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Choosing typefaces2m 48s
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2. Character Formatting
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Sizing and scaling type4m 20s
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Casing2m 33s
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Small caps4m 43s
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Superscript and subscript3m 22s
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Baseline shift4m 32s
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Italic and oblique type3m 7s
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Condensed and extended type2m 34s
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3. Leading (Line Spacing)
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Definition3m 5s
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Considerations for leading4m 30s
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4. Letter Spacing, Tracking, and Kerning
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Defining7m 23s
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Letter spacing3m 20s
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Tracking3m 49s
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Adjusting word spacing3m 17s
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Kerning5m 46s
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5. Small and Important Details
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Using the Glyphs panel6m 9s
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Em dashes and en dashes3m 58s
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Spacing characters6m 8s
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Ellipsis3m 2s
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Optical sizing2m 43s
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6. OpenType features
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Ligatures3m 47s
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Fractions4m 54s
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Numerals2m 41s
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Contextual alternates5m 35s
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Conclusion
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Goodbye28s
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