CHAPTER 29 USING TYPE STYLES You can save type formatting settings as named character and para- graph type styles using the Styles tab in the Type palette. Canvas stores type styles with documents. When you open a document, Can- vas loads the associated styles so you can apply them. Type styles make it easy to apply formats and maintain consistency throughout a document. You can base styles on each other to form a “family” of styles, so that styles inherit the character and paragraph attributes of a parent style. Organizing styles in this manner makes global style changes a simple matter of changing the parent style. When you change a style, text using the style also changes. In the case of style families, when a parent style changes, Canvas updates the entire style family and all text using styles in the family. Creating new type styles You can create two kinds of styles, character and paragraph, which incorporate different formatting attributes. After establishing charac- ter and paragraph styles, you can apply them independently to create new combinations. Character style attributes Paragraph style attributes Font Leading Type size Indents Font style Justification Capitalization style Drop caps Baseline position Hyphens Kerning Letter and word spacing Colors (optional) Text flow settings Character attributes and colors (optional)
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