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InDesign CC: Book Production, Laying a solid foundation

What you need to know before you start putting your book together
Rating: 4.2 out of 54.2 (55 ratings)
261 students
Created by David Bergsland
Last updated 8/2017
English
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What you'll learn

  • Select book size, margins, column width, and more for the print version of their books
  • Develop typographically excellent paragraph designs coupled with the knowledge needed to make professional decisions
  • Will be able to set up an efficient default set of paragraph styles and character styles

Requirements

  • Basic introductory knowledge of InDesign CC
  • A desire to make books look professional

Description

This is an essential typography course. Books, almost more than any project, need superlative typography to enable your readers to actually read the book. Without these skills and knowledge, your books will be compromised before you even release them.

You will discover why InDesign is necessary for book production. Word, and word processors in general, do not even have the capability of producing excellent typography.

This course covers the basic concepts you need to understand before you start putting your book together: how to set up your document—size, margins, and column width; Typography: what it is and how you produce excellent, readable typography so you can design your paragraphs to enable your readers to comfortably enjoy reading your book. By the time you finish the course, you will be amazed at all you didn't know about typography, readability, and how to communicate with your readers [or the readers of your clients].

Who this course is for:

  • An author or graphic designer who needs to produce better quality books and ebooks,
  • The designer who needs typographic skill

Course content

4 sections • 27 lectures • 3h 55m total length

  • Preview10:24
  • The current publishing world and in-demand publishing
    19:44
  • Here's the 500+ page book I wrote about book production. It covers more...
    00:02
  • As we get started, you have several decisions to make
    17:30
  • First Demo: Starting a new document the dialog box
    03:42
  • The single-story concept and the PTF: how crucial this is!
    10:17
  • How the PTF [Primary Text Frame] works: Demo
    09:50
  • Create a document preset to use for your book
    1 question

  • What is typography? You probably don't know...
    06:04
  • The basic characters in a font: the 256 character ASCII set
    09:12
  • Typographically necessary characters inside and out of ASCII
    15:26
  • A demo on finding OpenType features and special glyphs
    08:03
  • Fonts and simple classifications
    08:14
  • Exploring fonts
    10:08
  • Picking fonts for your book
    1 question

  • Paragraph design: the core of typography
    07:15
  • Paragraph Style Options: the New Style dialog box
    05:40
  • Adding the Character Panel options
    07:28
  • Taking a quick look at TypeKit
    06:39
  • Alignments, Indents, & Paragraph Spacing tips
    03:49
  • Tabs & Paragraph Rules
    08:26
  • Paragraph shading, tint boxes, and sidebars
    05:25
  • Keeping your widows, orphans, & runts under control
    05:21
  • Neat, tidy paragraphs: Hyphenation & Justification
    10:11
  • Split/span columns, drop caps, and nested styles
    08:26
  • Find & Change: GREP
    05:31
  • Building a list demo
    15:57
  • Completing the Paragraph Style dialog box
    05:29

  • A set of default styles
    11:13
  • Produce the default styles covered in lecture 27
    1 question

Instructor

David Bergsland
Author, font designer, & publisher at The Skilled Workman
David Bergsland
  • 3.7 Instructor Rating
  • 160 Reviews
  • 882 Students
  • 3 Courses
  • Began art & design career doing posters for my acid rock band in Minneapolis
  • Earned my BFA in printmaking & painting in 1971
  • Illustrated for publishers as soon as I was graduated
  • Became a graphic artist in 1979 in West Virginia
  • Grew into Typographer & Art Director in 1983 in Albuquerque at a large commercial printer
  • Began teaching commercial printing in 1991 in a large community college in Albuquerque
  • Started writing textbooks in 1994 beginning with “Printing In A Digital World”—the 1st textbook on the all-digital workflow for commercial printing
  • Began designing fonts to use in my books
  • Developed digital publishing degree in 1996
  • Initiated on-demand publishing house for print & ebooks in 2002—which developed into a full-time effort in 2009

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