June 11, 2009

Free InDesign style template

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Based on the principles of my Creating and organising styles article, I have created an InDesign document with a bunch of predefined styles.

The styles are build quite logical and easy to modify.

The styles are build quite logical and easy to modify

The idea is for you to download and get a great head start for creating styles for a project, or simply just to use them for eg. a CV, brochure, newsletter etc.

The template is based on using an OpenType Serif/Sans-Serif mix, and in this case I have used FontFont's Meta Serif/Sans Pro, but can easily be changed to another pair of fonts.

Use the style for creating eg. CV's.

Use the style for creating eg. CV's

Support for multiple levels of bullet and numbered lists.

Support for multiple levels of bullet and numbered lists

Besides directly using or modifying the styles, exploring the file will give you some great ideas of how to achieve different things through paragraph and character styles.

The file contains the following features and more:

  • Semantically named paragraph and character styles
  • 3 subheading levels, with and without automatic numbering
  • Bullet and numbered lists in 2 levels
  • Paragraph with and without indents
  • Drop cap paragraph
  • Quote
  • Table style
  • Text box styles
  • Caption
  • Text formatting styles
  • Footnote layout

Styles for tables.

Styles for tables

The InDesign file contains table styles, character styles and paragraph styles. To import these in another document you need to use "Load All Text Styles..." from the paragraph style panel menu, and "Load Table and Cell Styles..." from the table panel menu.

Download a PDF to see the different styles or download the InDesign file to get started.

The file is made in Adobe InDesign CS4.

Comments

Rufus Deuchler wrote:

Nice work Thomas! And thanks for sharing.

Silkjaer wrote:

Thank you :) And no problem!

Acedro Todd wrote:

Great Idea and thanks. This will speed things up.

Egils Gri?is wrote:

Thank you!

Paldies! (in Latvian)

Per Ljunghall wrote:

Always interesting to see other people's work on templates. Maybe I can interest you in the ones I built for Sydsvenskan some time...? :)

Per Ljunghall wrote:

Interesting font btw.

Dean wrote:

Cant open file.

Silkjaer wrote:

Per: I would love to see the ones you made for Sydsvenskan!

Dean: Sorry to hear that - CS4?

Michael Coyle wrote:

Thanks Thomas. Very kind. Any chance of an .inx file so CS3 users can open the file?

Hoang wrote:

Thanks for the great ideas Thomas!

carsten lykke wrote:

hej TS
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Laith Ibrahim wrote:

Thanks for sharing. It'll be great if you can post a CS3 version.

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...s it, you can catch the recorded version.
Thomas Silkjær has posted a nice set of highly-organized pre-defined styles for InDesign, which you can modify to suit your own needs....

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