Creative Sweet TV » Typography

Setting Tabs InDesign (No. 90)

Mike McHugh — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:46:30 +0000

Its so annoying when you see an InDesign document that has been put together with tabs and spaces all over the place. Common everyone lets get the tabs right and then put them into paragraph styles as well. Its not that hard when you see how to use the tab ruler. We do Right indent tabs, leaders and indent to here as well. What an awesome episode. Creative Sweet TV really is the home of well thought out tabs, and documents that allow for easy editing don’t forget you can follow Mike on twitter @cs_tv. Have a great Christmas break and thanks everyone for watching creative Sweet TV see you in 2011.

Top Ten InDesign CS5 Typography Shortcuts. (No. 86)

Mike McHugh — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:33:23 +0000

PLEASE DONT BE OFFENDED. This week Mike is in a particularly aggressive mood. But its because wants everyone to be awesome using InDesign Shortcuts. This week Creative sweet TV showcases with love the top ten essential shortcuts required to set type in InDesign. The shortcuts include, Soft returns, point size, leading, baseline shift, Indent to here, right indent tabs and the list goes on…
Sit back relax and learn with this mildly offensive episode of Creative Sweet TV.

InDesign Fixing Widows and Orphans (No. 84)

Mike McHugh — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:27:59 +0000

Dont you just hate it when you get a word or line of text left all by itself? Learn how to fix Widows and Orphans within InDesign Paragraph composer. Don’t switch it off man, it works really well if you know what to do. Use non breaking spaces and keep options to get it all sorted. Don’t forget you can follow Mike on Twitter @CS_TV

Justified Typography InDesign CS4 (No. 72)

Mike McHugh — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:29:57 +0000

Just aligning your text using the Justify button is just not good enough. However you can just watch this video tutorial all about the secrets of getting justified text looking just right. None of that horrible hyphenation either. Just letter space, word space and a little bit of typographic cheating is in order.

InDesign Optical Typography (No. 36)

Mike McHugh — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:06:16 +0000

LIVE from the lovely beaches of Glenelg South Australia, Mike has a few Typographic tips with InDesign CS3 ( kerning etc.). A special shout out to InDesign User Groups, and a very special announcement about himself.