Contents
General InDesign User guides
- InDesign User Guide
- Create a new Document
- InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts
- Grids
- InDesign Page Layout
- InDesign Multi page Doc Set Up
- InDesign Change Doc Set Up
- Illustrator How to create gradients Envato/Tuts Plus by Jonathan Lam
How-to-Videos
How to create Type on a Path / Adobe
Adobe InDesign for Beginners Free Course from Envato by Daniel Walter Scott
Putting Type on the Top and Bottom of a Circle – InDesign Tip of the Week by Pariah Burke
Books
This class doesn’t not require a specific textbook. Below see links to suggested readings about typography and tools:
Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud – Revised Edition Chapters relevant to this class: 2, 4, 13, 14
From CityTech’s Library:
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Thinking with Type : A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
Lupton, Ellen
Princeton Architectural Press
Typography, Referenced : A Comprehensive Visual Guide to the Language, History, and Practice of Typography
Jason Tselentis, Allan Haley, Richard Poulin, Tony Seddon, Gerry Leonidas,
Ina Saltz, Kathryn Henderson, and Tyler Alterman
Quarto Publishing Group USA
Layout Essentials : 100 Design Principles for Using Grids,
Tondreau, Beth.
Rockport Publishers, 2008
Organizations & Educational Centers:
Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT)
The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography Cooper Union
Type Design Portals
Blogs, Showcases, Articles, others
- Typeroom Showcasing outstanding typographic works from around the globe
- Fontology Under the “Learning” from Monotype Fonts.com
- Typewolf Typography inspiration.
- Typographica Type reviews and other
- Typography Guru Type glossary, news and some lessons
- Fonts in Use Exactly that- Examples of type in actual use
Type Management
- Adobe Fonts (previously Adobe Type Kit)
Free & Paid Fonts
Always read the licenses for fonts.
Type Foundries
The following list is just a few of the major type foundries where you can purchase fonts.
Social Feeds
(OER) Open Education Resources
Creative Commons
Public Domain Review
Open Library
OER Commons
Project Gutenberg
Smithsonian Libraries Art and Design
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