From the course: Designing with Grids in InDesign
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Subheads - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Designing with Grids in InDesign
Subheads
- [Instructor] When using a baseline grid, it's easy to align your text across columns when you have just a single size of text. As you start introducing paragraphs at different sizes with different amounts of space before and/or after, then it can become more challenging. Here we see a common scenario. I've introduced to some subheads and these subheads are aligned to the baseline grid. They share the same letting value as the body text and they have, above them, 12 points, which is the value of the baseline grid increment. Now, the problem is that, visually, they just appear a little bit too close to the line that follows them. It would be preferable if we could take some of this space here and reassign some of it beneath the subhead. In theory, so long as the total amount of space assigned to a paragraph is a multiple of your grid increment, then that should work just fine. Our grid increment is 12, so if there is a total amount of spacing of 24, 36, 48, etc., it shouldn't be a…
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Setting up a baseline grid4m 53s
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Potential problems with the baseline grid3m 1s
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Bottoming out4m 59s
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Subheads3m 43s
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Accommodating paragraphs with different leading3m 23s
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Halving your baseline grid increment2m 17s
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Using a custom baseline grid3m 23s
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Creating a cap height grid4m 5s
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Using First Baseline options instead of locking to the baseline grid4m 26s
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