InDesign - Drop Cap and Initial Cap Styles Tutorial

Learn how to create simple drop caps and initial caps styles using Adobe InDesign’s drop caps and nested styles palette. Apply these styles to the first paragraph of your text and use character styles to easily edit spacing.
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More about Stephen Kelman
Stephen graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in 2005. With considerable agency experience, his particular skillsets include brand identity and editorial design. He has received numerous Scottish and UK wide awards for identity and editorial design including a CIPR Excellence Award in 2013.
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[@perniciousconfections]

This is exactly what I needed! Thank you!

[@timpiglia]

Great Video/s! One question, is there a way to make the nested caps style apply to the first line instead of a word count of 3? So that one could apply this to a variety of column widths/dynamic word length, and always get the first line in caps? Many thanks!

[@stephenkelman_]

Hi Tim. Good question - do you have an example of the type of layout you’re looking to create?

[@denhamk]

Thank you! Works great until I want to centre the first line of the paragraph... it doesn't budge from it's left alignment. please is there away to centre a sentence with a DropCap?

[@stephenkelman_]

Hi denham, can you link to an example of what you’re looking for?

[@austenmaccherone6877]

I need more of an explanation of what is going on. I'm so confused why you're doing all this

[@LarisaLambert]

Thank you! This was exactly the information I needed and you made it easily understood.

[@zsuzsannasoos8339]

Thank you for the great video. May I have a question? How would you specify options for initials with trailing underlines (such as "Gy" and "Ny" - we have such letters in Hungarian)? As initials they usually come together with the line below...

[@zsuzsannasoos8339]

Ok, got it, check scale for descenders

[@stephenkelman_]

Glad you got it sorted zs

[@weilzudope]

your videos are very helpful thank you

[@grace_n]

Thanks really helpful 🙏🏿❤️

[@stephenkelman_]

Thanks Grace

[@MrJackfff]

This is a great breakdown, thanks!

[@MK-cv6pp]

Thanks a lot for the great video!!!
Beautiful layout and page design too!

[@stephenkelman_]

Thanks MK, appreciate that