Styling Reversed Type in InDesign
December 17 2007
Reversing type via styles in InDesign is something that has eluded me up until now - to great detriment since it was needed for the big book I just worked on. Today I stumbled across the answer in the Adobe Help Center (which should reinforce the RTFM attitude that I generally avoid). As it states under “To change the color and gradient of text”;
To create reverse type, you can change the text fill color to white or [Paper] and the frame’s fill color to a dark color. You can also create reverse type by using a paragraph rule behind text.
The way to do this in a paragraph style uses the latter part of the suggestion. It’s a bit of a hack but it does work - you apply a rule to the paragraph style, make the rule the appropriate height to cover the text, set the color to be the correct background color, shift/offset the rule it so that it is effectively overlapping the text, and change the text color to a contrasting color. For more detailed instructions look up “To add rules above or below paragraphs” in the Adobe Help Center for InDesign CS2.
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