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Infographic

Infographic

- [Nigel] Hi, I'm Nigel French. Welcome to Type Tips. This week, I want to talk about working with infographics in design. I have a very simple infographic, which is just basically a list of items, each one preceded by a number. And these different items follow a sequence of colors. And this sequence is consistent throughout the publication, derived from the color palette of the project. So there are quite a few things going on here in this infographic box. We have sequential styles, meaning that when I apply the styles to this text, it first applies the infographic head, then infographic number 1, 2, 3, etc. And each of these Paragraph Styles includes a Nested Style, which applies the relevant color to that paragraph. But the real point I want to make is that I am using here Vertical Justification, something that typically I like to avoid, but I think it can be very useful when you are pairing sidebar or some sort of…

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