: How to do a raised initial in InDesign? Please, how do you do a raised initial like the example in InDesign? Thank you, Elizabeth Hart

@Tiffany317

This can be done by creating a Paragraph Style with a nested Character Style.


Create a paragraph style with a Drop Cap of 1 line and 1 character.
Click the New Nested Style button
Set character style to the font size/color, etc. you would like the initial cap to be and name it something memorable (I named it Raised Cap).


When this is done you can go in and customize the styles more to refine the settings. Hope this helps.

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@Gonzalez368

It's not actually considered a raised initial. It's really just a larger font size. As you increase a font's size, it gets larger upward.

So if your body copy is 10pt font, you would just make the first letter like 80pt font to achieve something like what you've shown.

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