10 Graphic Design Tips for Beginners and Non-Designers

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10 Graphic Design Tips for Beginners and
Non-Designers

• A good set of graphic design tips always comes in
  handy when you are a beginner graphic designer,
  or even a non-designers on the journey to teach
  yourself some practical graphic design skills.
  Here are some practical graphic design tips for
  beginners and non-designers.
• Select the Right Fonts
• Clarity in design and readability is highly
  important. Make sure not to restrict your designs
  to one font only. Try to experiment with
  different styles of fonts and stick to a unique
  font style for your current project youre
  focusing. Explore different opportunities,
  instead of picking those dull default fonts.
• Use a small color scheme
• Choose a color scheme that has 1-3 primary colors
  and an additional 1-3 secondary colors that
  contrast and complement each other. Use
  different tones of the same color for consistency
  by adjusting brightness for contrast. Finer
  typefaces will need stronger distinction against
  a colored background.
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• Use white space
• Create a fluid design by surrounding words with
  white space to let elements breathe. The
  application of space around text boxes, images
  and other graphic elements makes a design easier
  to read. Its also more likely to attract
  attention than a cluttered composition.
• Select Consistent Images
• Ensure that the quality of images remains
  absolutely consistent throughout your design. The
  quality, framing, style, proportions, and
  lighting of those elements should stay constant
  all through your design. The graphics, diagrams,
  images, and illustrations that you use should add
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• Contrast is key
• Contrast is one of the most imperative parts of
  the design for mood, legibility and to make it
  stand out. Use a contrasting color palette
  background, fonts, and graphics. Use photo
  filters to enhance the positive/negative space
  in an image and apply black or white to copy to
  create optimum contrast against a background
  image. A good rule of thumb is if you have a
  light colored background then you should use a
  dark font (and vice versa).
• Align your objects
• This helps to keep design elements in a
  presentable order, regardless of their differing
  sizes. Proper alignment is an easy way to give
  your images a sophisticated and professional
  look.
• Use a line (or two) to create a sense of order
• Lines help to anchor items in an image and create
  the sense that there is an overall order. Use
  lines in your image by putting them around
  blocks of text there by anchoring the text.

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• You can also put lines as separators between
  various elements in the image. In this latter
  case, the sense of elements being separated
  furthers the feeling of planning and coordination
  in the design.
• Add text over images by adjusting brightness
  levels
• When your design involves putting text over
  images, adjust the brightness level of the
  background image or add a color overlay. This
  way the background image will offset the color of
  the text, causing the text to be readable and
  the design to still look clean and clear.
• Keep your designs simple
• Keep it simple, but dont forget your basics.
  Make sure every element has a reason to be in the
  design and keep the number of fonts, colors,
  shapes and frames to a minimum. Use contrasting
  tonal color combinations to text is sharp and
  easy to read. Applying a solid frame to contain
  your copy will enhance the compositional
  structure of a design.
• Use hierarchy to order your content
• The most visually dominant feature in a design
  should be the most important part of the message.
  Apply color or scale to a graphic to see how it
  changes the hierarchy of elements and what grabs
  attention first.