From the course: Designing with Grids in InDesign
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Setting up a baseline grid - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Designing with Grids in InDesign
Setting up a baseline grid
- [Instructor] In this movie, and the movies that follow in this chapter, I'm going to be talking about working with a baseline grid. We're going to start with setting up a baseline grid and then I'll move on to talking about issues that arise when you're working with a baseline grid. Firstly, why do you want to use a baseline grid? Well, as we see in this document, we can align the baselines of our type to this incremented ruling so that we can create a nice structured and clean look to our documents. I'm going to come to my setup document here where I have some columns of type and these columns of type are currently not aligned to a baseline grid. Let me point out that when I press W, we can see that I have my margins set up and then on a separate layer, I have my layout grid. I'm going to leave the layout grid turned off for now but the layout grid has informed the placement of the text frames on these pages. So, I will need my guides turned on and the first step is to turn on the…
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Setting up a baseline grid4m 53s
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Potential problems with the baseline grid3m 1s
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Bottoming out4m 59s
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Subheads3m 43s
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Accommodating paragraphs with different leading3m 23s
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Halving your baseline grid increment2m 17s
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Using a custom baseline grid3m 23s
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Creating a cap height grid4m 5s
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Using First Baseline options instead of locking to the baseline grid4m 26s
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