You can rectify this by placing your cursor between the drop cap letter and the first letter of the body text (here, between the ‘R’ and ‘o’ of ‘Romanticism’).
Is your drop cap crowding some of your paragraph text? Here, the tail of the ‘R’ is overlapping some of the body text. This shifts any straggly serifs or apostrophes to outside of the text frame, giving the whole paragraph, including your drop cap, a cleaner appearance. Step 2Ī trio of simple tweaks will help you to get the most out of your drop cap and give it a professionally polished look:įirst, go to Window > Type & Tables > Story, and check the Optical Margin Alignment box. This is perfect for when you want to pull out a whole word or phrase as part of your drop cap effect. You can also adjust the number of characters included in the drop cap by increasing the value of the Drop Cap One or More Characters, an option which you can find in the bottom-right corner of the Paragraph panel. Highlight with your type cursor the first letter of the paragraph, or simply place your cursor somewhere into the paragraph.įrom either the Paragraph Formatting Controls panel running along the top of the workspace or from the Paragraph panel (Window > Type & Tables > Paragraph), locate the Drop Cap Number of Lines option (indicated by an uppercase ‘A’ in the corner of a sequence of lines).īy clicking the arrows up or down, or by manually typing in a number, InDesign will set the drop cap to extend a specified number of lines, increasing the size of the character as it does.
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