Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago

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Typography is the heart of every great design, and in Adobe InDesign, it becomes your most powerful tool to communicate, captivate, and inspire.

Working with type is one of the most important things you will need to know when working with Indesign.

In this video, we are going to look at all the ways in which InDesign can help you create and format type.

And there are lots of things to know.

So get comfortable, and let’s jump into Indesign and check it out

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TOPICS COVERED:

00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:49 Type Overview
00:01:39 Open Worksheet
00:03:15 Key Panels In Adobe InDesign
00:03:35 Text Frames In Adobe InDesign
00:03:57 Type Tool In Adobe InDesign
00:04:26 Applying Fonts In Adobe InDesign
00:04:54 Font Size In Adobe InDesign
00:05:40 Type Formatting In Adobe InDesign
00:06:59 Change Case In Adobe InDesign
00:07:26 Apply Colour In Adobe InDesign
00:08:02 Skew Type In Adobe InDesign
00:08:29 Horizontal & Vertical Scale In Adobe InDesign
00:09:01 Snap Frame To The Type Contents In Adobe InDesign
00:09:42 Clone type Formatting In Adobe InDesign
00:10:41 Type Alignment
00:11:45 Tracking & Kerning
00:13:27 Leading In Adobe InDesign
00:14:11 Baseline Shift In Adobe InDesign
00:14:59 Diagonal Type In Adobe InDesign
00:16:26 Type On A Path In Adobe InDesign
00:19:02 Vertical Type In Adobe InDesign
00:20:07 Type On A Circle In Adobe InDesign
00:21:44 Responsive Type Frame In Adobe InDesign
00:25:19 Convert To Outlines In Adobe InDesign


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