Change the color, gradient, or stroke of text – Adobe InDesign CS4 User Manual
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USING INDESIGN CS4
Typography
With OpenType fonts, when you choose Ligatures from the Character panel menu or Control panel menu, InDesign
produces any standard ligature defined in the font, as determined by the font designer. However, some fonts include
more ornate, optional ligatures, which can be produced when you choose the Discretionary Ligatures command.
1 Select text.
2 Choose Ligatures from the Character panel menu or the Control panel menu.
See also
Change the color, gradient, or stroke of text
You can apply colors, gradients, and strokes to characters and continue to edit the text. Use the Swatches panel and
Stroke panel to apply colors, gradients, and strokes to text, or change Character Color settings when creating or editing
a style.
Swatches
A. Swatch affects fill or stroke B. Swatch affects container or text C. Tint percentage
1 Do one of the following:
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To apply color changes to text inside a frame, use the Type tool
to select text.
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To apply color changes to all text in a frame, use the Selection tool
to select the frame. When applying color to
the text rather than the container, make sure that you select the Formatting Affects Text icon
in the Tools panel
or in the Swatches panel.
2 In the Tools panel or in the Swatches panel, select whether you want to apply the color change to the fill or stroke.
If you select Stroke, the color change affects only the outline of characters.
3 Do any of the following:
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In the Swatches panel, click a color or gradient swatch.
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In the Stroke panel, specify a weight or other stroke options. (See “
You can also apply a gradient to text by dragging across the selected text using either the Gradient Swatch tool
or
the Gradient Feather tool
, which you can select by clicking and holding down the Gradient Swatch tool.
To create reverse type, you can change the text fill color to white or [Paper] and the frame’s fill color to a dark color.
You can also create reverse type by using a paragraph rule behind text; however, if the rule is black, you’ll need to
change the type to white.
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Updated 18 June 2009