Note: you must not delete or rename the Default typography!

A GN4 typography is a collection of various content formatting properties.

For example, a typography contains the color table and the dashing definition, stretch/shrink parameters, words estimate, start/end shapes (directly i.e. as attributes of a typography object), and it is referenced by titles, fonts, font layouts, formats, style libraries, page geometries etc.

Thus, a typography defines the look and feel of the printed content, and - due to the XML part of styles - also the look and feel of the Web (or other channel) content. See also Multiple typographies.

The system comes out of the box with the typography named Default. DO NOT DELETE OR RENAME the Default typography.

You can create an arbitrary number of typographies. Typically, you need a separate typography for each publication (title), but more titles can share the same typography.

Important: a new typography is not accessible from Ted4/Fred4, unless you set at least one title to reference that typography.

You associate a typography when creating a title. Therefore, to create a title, you need to have a typography already. Of course, you may also decide to use the Default typography, shipped with a new GN4 system and adapt it to your needs.

Note that all this means that some objects that were global in GN3, are typography-specific in GN4 - notably the fonts. Therefore, you can have multiple fonts with the same code number in a different typography.

Note

In GN3 some typographic/justification data is associated with the titles: color tables, formats and style libraries, page geometries. Other typographic/justification data is global: fonts and font layouts, dashing, stretch/shrink parameters.

The role that was played by the titles for typographic/justification data in GN4 is played by typography (object name: justScope).

See also

Create a typography