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Cropped type: Working with large abstract letters

Cropped type: Working with large abstract letters

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Cropped type: Working with large abstract letters

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- [Instructor] This technique is all about creating big, cropped, abstracted type. Let's take a look at some examples. Now the issue that we're going to run into when we do this in InDesign is that when we make our type really big, it falls out of the text frame. So we need to use auto-size frames, and we also want to give ourselves options for changing our minds, so we're going to use paragraph styles, and we're going to use object styles. And in addition, I'm going to show you a trick for how we can have one frame crop another. So we're going to be using paste into. I'm beginning with a square page, and I'm going to divide this into four equal-sized frames. Now, this is using gridify. As I just click and drag with gridify, I can tap my up or my right arrows to add rows and to add columns. So that I don't have to keep my mouse button held down while I'm doing that, I'm going to come to my margins and columns and set the gutter to zero. And that means that when I divide into rows and…

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