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Establishing hierarchy in a table of contents - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Layout and Composition
Establishing hierarchy in a table of contents
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll looking at establishing hierarchy in a document. I'm working with a magazine table of contents which contains several levels of hierarchy. Let's begin by identifying the various categories of text which we need to differentiate. There are the article descriptions, the page numbers, the article heads, the department heads, special report and cover heads, cover information, masthead information, captions, and finally, a pull-quote. If we introduced too many different styles, too many different fonts, too many different sizes, the page will look confusing. The elements need to be different, but they also need to be connected. Often, just a single visual cue is enough to convey the distinction between one level of text and another. For this reason, I'm using a single type face family, Source Sans, but I'm using it in a variety of ways, regular, bold, all caps, in color, with a rule above and…
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