From the course: InDesign: Elements of a Layout
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White space - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Elements of a Layout
White space
- [Voiceover] White space is design space that makes a layout more inviting and more readable. There's a distinction between micro white space, the space between the letters and words and between the lines, and macro white space which refers to the margins, the space between paragraphs and any white space columns. White space can be used creatively and daringly. It can also be used functionally to visually establish hierarchy and to make it clear which elements belong together and which are separate. We've already addressed the micro white space in earlier steps. Here we're going to reconfigure the layout to incorporate some macro white space. I'll move to the master pages spread and then come to the layout menu and to margins and columns because I want to change from a three column grid to a five column grid. Note that I have enable layout adjustment checked and that's gonna make sure that any items that are a single column width will now be one of my five columns rather than one of…
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