The sophisticated typographic controls Adobe InDesign offers have made it today's premier page layout tool. Now, Nigel French's InDesign Type, the first book to focus exclusively on typographic features, provides users a comprehensive overview of the application's vast array of type capabilities-from basic character-level formatting to advanced techniques using nested styles. Through practical examples and a wealth of color and black-and-white illustrations, InDesign Type shows how features such as the Adobe Paragraph Composer, Optical Kerning, and support for OpenType fonts work and how users can efficiently produce professional type treatments. Simply put, InDesign Type is a rich resource for anyone interested in producing betterlooking type with Adobe InDesign. Book jacket.