Today’s Plan:
- Typography
- Table of Contents
- Page Numbers
- Crit on Friday
Typography
Now that you have a considerable amount of our copy threaded into InDesign, I want to spend some time revisiting the basic elements of typography and addressing how we might adjust our text.
- Body Copy Font Choice (Let’s check out TypeWolf)
- Font Pairings–Creating Hierarchy Between Title, Author, and Body
- Alignment: You probably shouldn’t justify your text
- Font-Size: Typically body size for a literary magazine is 10 to 11 pt, depending on font-size. Once you have a body size, you can use a modular scale to determine heading sizes.
- Leading/Line spacing: [note: the higher your x-height, the more you should try bumping your leading up; generally leading is set between 1.2 and 1.5–also, the more leading, the more pages, the higher the cost of production]. Real Talk.
- For prose: line-length. How many characters for a printed line of text? (Answer less than 75). But wait:
- Adjusting tracking (general spacing between letters) to improve readability and (hack) eliminate orphans.
- Headings: Adjust Kerning (metrical vs. optical)
Table of Contents
Layout > Table of Contents
The magic needed to automate tile and author was not worth the aggravation. So, we can just edit the ToC once it is generated.
Page Numbers
Master Page. Insert > Special Character > Marker > Current Page Number. Then create a new paragraph style with Indent set to “Away from Spine.”
