The 7 principles of design and how to use them

The principles of design are the rules a designer must follow to create an effective and attractive composition. The fundamental principles of design are: Emphasis, Balance and Alignment, Contrast, Repetition, Proportion, Movement and White Space.

Design differs from art in that it has to have a purpose. Visually, this functionality is interpreted by making sure an image has a center of attention, a point of focus. Maybe you’re thinking, ‘But wait! I thought design was all about creativity?’ If you’re an entrepreneur or designer who’s just starting out, you might be tempted to go wild and combine the first five typefaces and colors that catch your eye, believing you’re creating something fresh and new. You will probably find yourself with a design that is muddled, unfinished, or well, just plain ugly.

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50 Free Stylish Fonts To Bring A Touch Of Elegance To Any Design

Are you still on the lookout for the perfect elegant font?

With social media exploding with more and more style posts every day, it’s now absolutely necessary to stand out from the crowd, and you need fonts that will take your designs to the next level.

Designing for Engagement: How Color, Type and Space Can Impact The Mood Of Your Design

Design is visual communication.

It invites users to interact with a brand, product, message, or idea. But what is it about some designs that draws us in? The colors? A clever headline set in an attractive font? A great composition? More than likely, it’s the combined effect of all of the above. These and other features you might include in a design work together to give projects what you could call a mood or personality.

Website Color Schemes: The Palettes of 50 Visually Impactful Websites to Inspire You

Did you know that Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green color blind?

“Blue is the richest color for me; I can see all of blue” says Zuckerberg. While this choice of color doesn’t seem very scientific, it’s still proves that a lot of thought is put into the choice of color.

100 Brilliant Color Combinations and How to Apply Them to Your Designs

It can attract attention, set a mood, and even influence our emotions and perceptions.

But sometimes it can be hard to know where to start when choosing a color palette for your design project.

So we’ve done the hard work for you— giving you 100 color combinations inspired by nature, food & drink, travel, and everyday items.

12 Ways Designers Know When a Design Looks Good – And How You Can Too

As a non-designer, watching a designer work can be a mystifying experience.

How did they know which fonts to use? Why do those colors look so good together? How is this event poster making me feel so excited?

There are no right or wrong answers when it comes to design, which is one of the reasons why beginners find it so hard to learn.

If you’ve got a designer in your workplace to create graphics for you, you’re in luck. But if you’re like thousands of small business owners we’ve been speaking to recently — it’s likely that design is making your life really tough.

As part of some exciting plans we have to make design in the workplace amazingly simple, we’ve put together this checklist of 12 crucial things designers consider to create beautiful visual content.

Ready to make sure your design is looking its best? Throughout the design process — planning, designing, reviewing — try asking yourself these questions:

50 Modern Fonts to Give Your Designs a Contemporary Feeling

Try one of these modern fonts to position your work at the forefront of design.

‘Form follows function’ in modernist design and the principle certainly applies to modern fonts. Based on geometric lines and forms, modern fonts are clean, clear, and easy to read; plus with a creative twist or dash of detail they have a cool, contemporary vibe.

Responsive web design: What the Internet looks like in 2016

Whether a website is being viewed on a phone or computer, or being browsed with a mouse or touchscreen, it should look and function properly.

That’s responsive web design. According to Google’s recommendation, this also allows you to share your website with a single URL (great for social media) so Googlebots can easily crawl your website (great for indexing).

A Beginner’s Guide to Kerning Like a Designer

Have you ever looked at a word or phrase you’re typesetting and something just looked off about it?

It might just be a kerning problem. Kerning refers to the amount of space between two letters (or other characters: numbers, punctuation, etc.) and the process of adjusting that space to avoid awkward-­looking gaps between your letters and improve legibility.

Some principles of design

The system font for iOS, OS X, and watchOS. Fonts lay at the intersection of design and engineering. Get introduced to typographic principles and how they apply to the San Francisco fonts. Hear what makes this family of fonts unique and how to effectively take advantage of their advanced features.

10 typography tricks every designer should know

Banish kerning calamities and learn to love leading with our expert tips and tricks for perfect typography.

In this article, we're going to reveal some typography tips and tricks that you can use to boost your design skills and impress friends and colleagues. But before you even begin getting into the intricacies of setting type in the likes of InDesign, it's important to know the basics.

If you need a refresher on type terms then check out our article What is typography? Learn the basic rules and terms of type! For this article, though, the most important thing you need to know is the difference between kerning and tracking. Kerning is the spacing between specific pairs of letters, whereas tracking works across a range of characters or even paragraphs or whole documents.

Kerning is a fine art – and one you can quickly get good at using both InDesign's tools and some tricks in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. In InDesign or Illustrator, you can adjust kerning by selecting the Type tool and clicking on the gap between two characters, before holding down Alt/Opt and using the left and right arrows to adjust the space between them. By default the increment applied with each press of the arrow is 20 thousandths of an em, but you can adjust this preference for tighter control.

Once you've got the hang of that, read on to discover how you can take your typography skills to the next level...

25 Typographic Advertisements to Inspire Your Next Design

Want to get creative with your advertising?

In this article, we’ve put together 30 fantastic typographic advertisements for you to use as reference and inspiration in your next ad design (or any design, really).

Let’s take a look.

Oh, wait, before we get started, have you guys signed up to Canva yet? If not, why not? It’s free and it makes designing basically anything (from social media ads to business cards) easier than it’s ever been. Go on, treat yourself to better design.

Art of Food

Food. Love it? You’ve never seen it look like this. We can promise you that.
Savory. Sweet. Scrumptious. Flavorful. Fragrant… Hungry yet?

Designs that involve food have the unique job of engaging viewers’ senses and getting their tastebuds tingling to try or buy the product pictured.

Whether on restaurant menus, packaging, or advertisements, food imagery needs to make the most of qualities like color, texture, and shape to look as appealing as possible.

Ready to dig into some appetizing designs?

We’ve compiled a showcase of 50 that show what’s possible in this category and offer some ideas and techniques that you can apply yourself.

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