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Casing and underlining - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Typography
Casing and underlining
- [Instructor] Let's talk about InDesign's casing options: uppercase, small caps, superscript, subscript, underline, and strikethrough. Firstly, I include this picture just to make the point that they're called uppercase because the big characters were literally stored in the upper type case, and the small characters stored in the lower type case, back in the days of metal type. When you set text in all caps, you make the word shapes very similar. And while this isn't always a bad thing, I think it should be avoided for most continuous reading text. Because we read by recognizing word shapes, and when the shapes are very similar, we are reducing the readability of the text. I'm not saying by any means that you shouldn't set text in all caps, sometimes it's very effective. But avoid it, or use it very sparingly, for continuous reading text. If you do find yourself supplied with text that has been set in all caps, or typed with the caps lock key on, you do have some options for changing…
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