What The Font - Font Guess In Adobe InDesign CC

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Creative Cloud APP 5:45
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74 lessons / 9 hours Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is Dan. I am an Adobe Certified Instructor and an Adobe Certified Expert for InDesign and I work as a professional graphic designer. This course is about advanced features, productivity & workflow speed tricks using Adobe InDesign. 

This course is not for people brand new to InDesign. It’s for people who already know and understand the fundamentals. 

If you are already happy adding text & images to InDesign documents then this course is for you. Even if you consider yourself a heavy user, I promise there will be things in here that will blow your InDesign mind. 

You’ll learn advanced font tricks using Typekit & Opentype fonts, font grouping & font pairing. Mastering colour features like the colour theme tool and colour modes as well as professional proofing for colours for print. We’ll set permanent defaults for fonts, colours & will learn how to turn hyphenation off for good, once and for all.  

What would an advanced InDesign course be without all the tactics to fully control paragraphs, auto expanding boxes, spanning & splitting columns. You’ll become a Styles master, using nested styles, grep styles, next styles & advanced object styles.  

We’ll make beautiful charts & graphs for your InDesign documents. You’ll learn the pros & cons of various digital distribution methods including Interactive PDF’s, EPUBs & the amazing Publish Online. 

You’ll become a master of long, text heavy documents, autoflowing, primary text frames & smart text reflow, cross referencing, indexes, text variables & the InDesign book feature. There is entire section dedicated to how to speed up your personal workflow & how to speed up InDesign and get it running super fast. 

We look at interactive forms & scripts. There is just so much we cover and I want to share everything here in the intro but I can’t. Have a look through the video list, there is an amazing amount we cover here in the course. 

If you’re one of those people using InDesign and you know there is probably a better way, a faster way to work then this is your course. 

Daniel Walter Scott

What are the requirements?

  • You will need a copy of Adobe InDesign 2018 or above. But you find that 95% of all the features in this course will work with earlier version of InDesign (e.g. CS6). A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 70 lectures 5+ hours of well structured content. 
  • Create PDF Forms
  • Master Long Documents.
  • Advanced Fonts
  • Master Styles
  • Shortcut Sheet
  • Create Charts & Infographics
  • Create Interactive Documents
  • Workflow Tactics
  • Shortcuts & Speed Tips
  • Advanced Creative Cloud Features
  • Tips for working with Photoshop & Illustrator
  • Using Scripts 
  • Exporting, Prepress & Printing tricks 
  • You will get the finished files so you never fall behind. 
  • Downloadable exercise files & cheat sheet. 
  • Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew. 
  • Techniques used by professional graphic designers. 
  • Professional workflows and shortcuts. 
  • A wealth of other resources and websites to help your accelerate your career. 

What is the target audience?

  • This course is for people who already know InDesign and want to take their skills and speed to the maximum level. 
  • This is an advanced InDesign course, so you’ll need basic InDesign skills to find this course useful. 
  • This course is perfect for anyone that already knows how to insert images & add text. 
  • If you a completely new to InDesign try my InDesign Essentials course before starting this one.
  • This course is perfect for anyone that has completed my InDesign Essentials course.

Course duration 7 hours 45 mins + your study.
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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So there's two ways to make this work. Neither of them are in InDesign. So, you're going to have to jump to either Typekit or Photoshop, I'll show you both.

I'm going to use Photoshop. So in Photoshop, let's all go to 'Open', and I want you to go to 'Exercise Files'. Go to '01 Spring Flyer', and there's 'Font Match 1'. Now this is just a JPEG. It could be a PDF, we don't have the font. Just want to know what that font is, maybe this one in the middle here. Grab the Selection tool, and draw a box around the font you want to pick. And then go up to 'Type', there's one in here called 'Match Font'. If you've got an earlier version of Photoshop, maybe 2015, this is not going to work. But you can see here, I selected it, it just goes off, and picks it. I know that it's Roboto Slab, because I originally picked this font but there's no physical way that Photoshop can actually pick. It's actually just going and checking in its database and seeing, and trying to match the font style.

You can see here, there's my Roboto Slab Lite, it even picked the weight, so good. Actually I think it was Roboto Slab 100 that I used. But it gives you some other options as well. How good is it? It's pretty good. If it's a photograph that you've taken with your cell phone, I find that's less useful, but if it's just a JPEG you've pulled off the internet or an image from a website, that seems to work pretty well. So let's hit 'Cancel', and let's look at another version of picking a font.

Let's jump to the Typekit website. So if we go to Typekit, and just go to the actual home page, typekit.com, or click on this little icon here. All the way back to the beginning, outside of Browse, there's this little option here. So, I can grab the 'Font Match 2', click, hold, and drag it. Give it a sec, I'll show you this, show you what it looks like. That's what it looks like, just a little snapshot. It's a JPEG, so there's no kind of like editable text. There's bits and pieces all over the place. So, in Typekit it's kind of gone through, and guessed the font. Actually I want to pick this one up here, not that font, I'm looking for this guy. So grab as much of it as you can. You might have to tidy things up in Photoshop, maybe to delete a background, or to make it a little easier for you to guess.

So 'Select a single line of text', 'Next step'. It tries to guess the words. So you can help it, you can see, it didn't get 'Healing' because of this little flourish at the top here. So I'm going to type in 'Healing' to help it out. Pretty good recognition though, let's click 'Next step'. You can see here, it's picked Lust. I know it's Lust, you know it's Lust, because we've all started using it. But it's gone through and picked Lust. Any other option it's given us? Lots of Lust, there's another one here, that's very close. And it's one that can be sent from Typekit, which is cool. Click 'Sync', and it will download. You can see, some of these ones are paid ones and some of them can be sent. Why can some be sent, and some paid? This one here, Lust Display Italic is part of your Typekit account whereas this one is not. It's still Lust, but a different font and you can go off and purchase it if you need it.

So there's two ways of deciding how to pick fonts. Now there are a couple of other services, like WhatTheFont. Go to myfonts.com/whatthefont. It's pretty much exactly like Typekit.

The last option is to use your cell phone. There is an option, there's an app that Adobe has, it's called Adobe Capture. Let's jump in here now, and take a look at it. So here I'm on my phone, I've got an Android phone. This app, the Adobe Capture one is available both on iPhone and Android. I'm going to open it up. There's a bunch of different options in here we're going to stick to Type for the moment because that's the topic we're in and hit the little '+' button down the bottom right. Now, this is me. What it's looking for is, you to find a bit of sample text. I'm using my business card. Why? Because I know the fonts, so I know if it gets it right or not. And line it up. What I found is-- that's looking right, but I'm turning that-- down the bottom left there, there is the turning the flash on. Click the button.

Awesome! So it's got it, now you need to kind of help it. Say, by dragging these corners here, not him, by dragging these corners here. I'm not going to grab both of them because-- they're the same font but different weights. I'm not going to try and confuse on purpose, I guess. I pick this one. Kick back, relax, and it picked the total right one. Embraces me. You can see, Museo Sans around it, it even picked the weight correctly. It gives you other options. There's lots of them, you can see, some of them are pretty close, right? Even though they're different fonts, they're very, very similar.

So where this gets even better is, you can click on 'Edit' on the top right and you can play around with font size. You can go through and decide on, can you see, there's the Font Style, which is basically the weight. You can decide on all the different weights you can play around with. You can play around with the tracking. Leading, actually that's what I was doing there. Tracking, you can track it in, track it out. What you're kind of doing now is you're building a Character Style that you can use in InDesign. So let's have a look at--

Let's change the text, and just look at a sample bit of text. There, now my Leading is being mixed up. I like you here now. So you can play around with this. You get the idea, right? It recognizes fonts. What's really magical is the arrow in the top right. Once I click on this one, I can create a Character Style, and give it a name. This one's going to be-- let's just say I'm going to use this for Maynooth furniture now because I love it. And I'm going to use it for, I don't know, Headings. Can't think of anything. And save it to My Library, actually I'm going to save it to my Furniture one. Click 'Save', and it's going to appear in InDesign. Magic! Then I can start using it. There's a Character Style. Too good, okay.

That's going to be it for picking fonts. Yes, we had a couple of different ways of doing it. I love this phone version, especially if you're out and about and you're like, "Oh, I love this one." "I'm just going to appropriate or steal ideas from other people." All right, let's get on to the next video.

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