Basic Design Guidelines
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The document provides guidelines for designing including using contrast to make designs stand out, choosing a color scheme and font palette while avoiding too many fonts per page or hard to read fonts like comic sans. It advises starting every project with a layout grid, ensuring sufficient text-background contrast, establishing a typographic hierarchy, and avoiding small text. Images should follow the rule of thirds and designs should generally be kept simple.
Basic Design Guidelines
- 1. Guidelines for Design Siddarth Kengadaran
- 2. Use contrast to help your designs stand out
- 3. DO take time to choose your color scheme
- 4. Choose your font palette
- 5. DON’T use too many different fonts on one page
- 6. DON'T use comic sans or crazy fonts that end up being hard to read
- 7. DO look around and see what’s out there in the design world
- 9. Always start your design project with a layout grid. No exceptions.
- 10. DO make sure there is enough contrast between your text and the background
- 11. DO establish a typographic hierarchy
- 12. DON’T make the text too small
- 13. Use a grid or frame where possible with images
- 14. The Rule of Thirds Simply place your main subject where the lines intersect.
- 15. Keep it simple