AntiqueFlaneur Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 I'm designing a book and basing some of my pages off published books I have in my library. You can see the "fancy" look I'm going for in the pic below. How do I reproduce this style in Publisher? It looks like the first letters of the words are larger. The underline for Meditations is not a usual underline, but set a bit lower. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophet Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 You could try the Decorations section of the Paragraph panel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_d Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 Here's one way... The font isn't a perfect match by any means - I've used ACaslon because it's got that classic look, although it's not as distinctive as the font in your photo. Ideally you'd need finer and more tapering serifs to match the weight of the underscore. The initial 'M' is in 30pt, the remaining letters are in 24pt, given a baseline adjustment of 4.3pt in the Character Panel, Positioning and Transform: The rule is not a text underline but a line drawn with the Pen tool, set at 0.5pt and positioned to align with the baseline of the initial 'M'. Depending on the font you might also want to adjust the letter spacing. Hope it helps, H Quote Affinity Photo 2.0.3, Affinity Designer 2.0.3, Affinity Publisher 2.0.3, Mac OSX 13, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophet Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 Well, if we're showing our work… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntiqueFlaneur Posted October 20, 2020 Author Share Posted October 20, 2020 1 hour ago, h_d said: Here's one way... The font isn't a perfect match by any means - I've used ACaslon because it's got that classic look, although it's not as distinctive as the font in your photo. Ideally you'd need finer and more tapering serifs to match the weight of the underscore. The initial 'M' is in 30pt, the remaining letters are in 24pt, given a baseline adjustment of 4.3pt in the Character Panel, Positioning and Transform: The rule is not a text underline but a line drawn with the Pen tool, set at 0.5pt and positioned to align with the baseline of the initial 'M'. Depending on the font you might also want to adjust the letter spacing. Hope it helps, H Thanks! Super helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntiqueFlaneur Posted October 20, 2020 Author Share Posted October 20, 2020 45 minutes ago, prophet said: Well, if we're showing our work… Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 I used a Character Scaling of 180% in both H and V for the M and then lowered it using a baseline offset. Then there is an underline decoration in the Paragraph section. The decoration has to be set to the text and then the left offset managed by eye. You may have to use up and down offsets depending on the font. Georgia here. mark.afpub Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntiqueFlaneur Posted October 20, 2020 Author Share Posted October 20, 2020 10 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: I used a Character Scaling of 180% in both H and V for the M and then lowered it using a baseline offset. Then there is an underline decoration in the Paragraph section. The decoration has to be set to the text and then the left offset managed by eye. You may have to use up and down offsets depending on the font. Georgia here. mark.afpub Very cool. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Oehlschlager Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 You may want to select a font with Small Capitals that you can raise with a baseline offset. Small Capitals are designed to match the optical weight of the complementary capitals and lowercase letters from the same font set at the same point size. The problem with scaling the "M" up or "EDITATIONS" down is that you get obvious mismatched stroke weights. The example below is set in Adobe Caslon Pro, using small capitals. Fixx and sfriedberg 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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