From the article: Rules and Best Practices in Page Layout
My 12 Rules: One space after punctuation; no double-hard returns; use fewer fonts; appropriate text alignment; limit use of centered text; balance line length; limit all caps; use typographical punctuation; use frames wisely; use less clip art; use more white space; reset document defaults.
Your Rules: What else should be a rule of desktop publishing and graphic design? What mistake do you see over and over that everyone should avoid?
This form is not for asking questions. You will not receive replies to questions. Use the community forums instead.
State Your RuleFonts
- You say, don't use too many fonts. I say don't use 'fancy' fonts that make it difficult to read. People will give up !
- —Guest Meg
Body text
- Don't use large size font for body text. Use small size font than the headline font to make difference between both of them.
- —Guest nirmal singh
Never 'All Caps' Scripts & Blackletter
- You should NEVER use All Caps when using a script or text (Blackletter, Old English, whatever term you use). It is not at all legible.
- —Guest Jennifer
My rules
- Use tabs, NOT spacebar. Use tables where needed, it saves a lot of time.
- —Guest Jessica Hughes
Proofread
- Learn to spell or find someone who can to proofread your work. It doesn't matter if you have gorgeous graphics or beautiful fonts if you have misspelled or missing words or a perfectly fine word in the wrong place. Proofread, proofread, proofread. Then get someone else and another person and the guy next door to proofread what everyone else has proofed already. It's not like designing a logo or baking a cake where you can have too many cooks. You need lots of proofreading of everything. Proof the layout, yes. But read, read, and re-read every word as well. Don't get in such a rush to be finished or you'll waste hours re-doing work or end up being embarrassed by the typos when it's way too late to fix them. (This message was written in just a few minutes with no one around to proofread. I hope I caught all my own errors.)
- —Guest Bethia
