Cleveland InDesign User Group

Meeting Summary

Typography
Tue, May 20th, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Cleveland Institute of Art

Event Details

We had a great turnout at the May 20th meeting, held at the Cleveland Institute of Art! We had about 45 people - many familiar faces and more than 10 people new to the group. April Clark, Adobe Certified Instructor and co-chair of the Cleveland InDesign User Group started off the meeting by discussing her recent trip to the Adobe Community Summit which included four days of training at the Adobe headquarters in San Jose. April showed off some of her photos.

Pat Lally's typography presentation was a great hit! To start off our topic, Pat showed two cool YouTube videos - one visually showing off terms of typography and another showing off the creative use of type.

Pat discussed type basics but also reminded us of some cool InDesign features. Pat explained how to properly set up an InDesign document for text. He emphasized the importance of making text decisions early in the design process.

Some of the topics Pat covered included: Choosing Fonts, Setting Up Baseline Grids, Choosing Type Size And Paragraph Spacing, Justification And Hyphenation, Optical Margins, Keep Lines Together and using Open Type fonts.

Some of the topics we discussed in depth included the use of text frames on master pages, using Find/Change to search for multiple spaces and/or individual characters, the width of an "em" space, taking advantage of using styles, basing one style on another, Edit Story, bad line breaks, hanging punctuation and Glyphs.

Suggestions for books on typography:

The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst

You Shall Know our Velocity by Dave Eggers

Web sites mentioned:

http://www.adobe.com/type/

http://www.acrobatusers.com

http://www.indesignsecrets.com

http://www.extensis.com = Link to Best Practices for Managing Fonts in Mac OS

http://www.fontfont.com

Mari Hulick, co-chair of the InDesign User Group, offered that user group members could contact her if they have any topic ideas for classes to be held at the Cleveland Institute of Art. This is a fantastic opportunity to suggest an idea to meet some of your training needs.

We raffled off InCopy books, an Adobe baseball cap and the "Grand Prize" of Adobe InDesign CS3.

The meeting was held at the Gund Building in the Ohio Bell room. As usual, Mari was nice enough to arrange the meeting space for us and she once again provided munchies and drinks.

Mari Hulick and April Clark

Co-Chapter Representatives

Cleveland InDesign User Group