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 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.
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.
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.