Leading, for example, is really a property that applies to an entire line of text (InDesign uses only the largest leading value in a line), but we’ll call it “character” formatting, nonetheless, because you can apply it to individual characters. There are areas of overlap in these definitions. Tab settings, indents, paragraph rules, space above, and space after are examples of paragraph formatting. We refer to all formatting that can be applied to a selected range of text as “character” formatting, and refer to formatting that InDesign applies at the paragraph level as “paragraph” formatting. (Longtime QuarkXPress users won’t think of leading as a character format, but we’ll cover that next.) Font, type size, color, and leading are all aspects of character formatting. Character formatting controls the appearance of the individual letters in your publication.
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