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Quesiton: Movie Poster Text Formatting

May 14, 2012 1:31 PM

Tags: #design #text #indesign #indesign_cs5 #poster #paragraph_formatting

Hi,

I am in the process of creating a movie poster for a University project, and i am having trouble formatting some text. The image below contains an example...

The "Written By", "Music By" etc.

What is the best way to set this type without creating new text boxes with formatting?

Thanks

829 Views 3 Replies Latest reply: 2005987, May 15, 2012 6:26 AM

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1. [Jongware],

May 14, 2012 1:58 PM in reply to ConceptLion

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Why *not* use text boxes? It's simpler than two other options right from the top of my head (there may be others):

1. Everything in a table. Extremely bothersome for such a large amount of text.

2. Shifting baseline up and down, and using kerning to put one text over another.

Try all three methods, just for the fun of it, then you can decide for yourself what works best.

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2. Stix Hart,

May 14, 2012 3:39 PM in reply to ConceptLion

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What Jongware said, and anchor the text boxes.

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3. 2005987,

May 15, 2012 6:26 AM in reply to ConceptLion

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SteelTongs font.

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