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Designing the Adobe InDesign Way
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Gradients can be a nice way to draw attention to items in your document and add an element of depth as they transition from one color to another. They can be as simple or as complex as you want and can be designed to flow in a particular linear direction or outwards radially from a central point.
In this recipe, we will take a look at creating both linear and radial gradients, editing your gradients, and saving gradients to your Swatches panel for easy reuse within your InDesign documents.
To complete this recipe, simply open InDesign on your system and create a new document with 12 pages and the intent set to Print, as shown in the Creating a new document recipe in Chapter 1. You should already be comfortable with creating new color swatches, as covered earlier in this chapter.
To create gradients and save them as swatches, just follow these steps:
Change the font size
Change margin width
Change background colour