Type Tips and Tricks

Gain expertise on typography and InDesign. Hear tips and techniques for choosing, combining, setting professional level type, including:

• Hyphenation and justification settings
• The importance of paragraph, character, and object styles
• Managing widows, orphans, and runts
• Working with layout and baseline grids

Location and Parking

Parking is free for three hours in the parking lot below the library. Parking is free for one hour in the lot south of the library.

Farthest Attendee

The bona fide LAIDUG member who travels the farthest specifically to attend the meeting will receive her or his choice of any one deal at MightyDeals up to $50.00. Mighty Deals offers fonts, templates, apps, e-books, etc. You need to prove to us that you traveled farthest to attend this meeting. Having recently moved to the area from somewhere else won't cut it. Be prepared to show us indication of your current residence—perhaps a driver's license or a utility bill. Decision of the administrators of the Los Angeles InDesign User Group is final. Winner — Angela DeLeon

Raffles

LAIDUG is supported by raffles of donated prizes. No one is required to participate in the raffles. Raffle tickets are: 1 for $3, 2 for $5, 5 for $10, 11 for $20, 24 for $40, 32 for $50 and 65 for $100. All major credit cards are accepted.

Raffle Prizes and Winners

eDocker CREATE! 6 month subscription. Value $774.00 Winner — Natalie Kjer

Adobe Creative Cloud. 12 month subscription. Value $599.88 Winner — Rick Torres

Stock Layouts. Full access to Stock Layout template library. 3 month subscription. Value $299.00 Winner — Angela DeLeon

in5 from Ajar Productions. Value $219.00 Winner — Angela DeLeon

Markzware. Any single product. 12 month subscription. Value $199.00 Winner — Sean Christensen (PDF2DTP)

Expo Creative Asset Manager for Mac from Insider Software. Value $149.00 Winner — Candice Ota

Font Agent Pro 7 from Insider Software. Value $99.95 Winner — Susan Reuben

InMotion Hosting. Web hosting and free domain. Value $90.00 Winner — Traci Larson

DTP Tools Cloud for InDesign. 6 month subscription. $77.40 Winner — Sean Christensen

InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign by Nigel French. Value $54.99 (two raffles) Winners — Dallas Dorsett Mathers, Traci Larson

TypeDNA. Font management software. Value $49.00 Winner — Beverly Houwing

Adobe Stock. 15 image licenses. $44.00 Winner — Karin Boghaskhanian

InDesign Magazine. 6 month subscription. Value $30.00 Winner — Karin Boghaskhanian

Pluralsight. 1 month subscription. Value $29.00 (two raffles) Winners — Alan Gilbertson, Susan Reuben

LA Web Professionals Group meeting tickets. Value $7.99 (four raffles) Winners — Todd Leonard

About the Presenter

Nigel French

Nigel French is a graphic designer, photographer, and design teacher, based in Lewes, UK. He is the author of InDesign Type, and coauthor of The Type Project Book, and The Photoshop Visual Quickstart Guide. Nigel has recorded more than fifty titles for the LinkedIn Learning online training library, contributes regularly to CreativePro Magazine, and speaks at CreativePro Week and Adobe MAX. His website is nigelfrench.com.