10 Graphic Design Tips For Beginners

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When you are a beginner graphic designer or even a non-designer trying to educate yourself on some useful graphic design abilities, a decent collection of advice is usually helpful. Your designs might not appear as polished as professional as you'd want as a non-designer. But be assured that we have your back.

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We've compiled a collection of the top graphic design hints and techniques below to assist you in quickly producing better-looking designs, even if you have no prior design knowledge.

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With these helpful hints, you can up your graphic design game. The applicability of graphic design is extensive and adaptable, whether you're generating social media visuals or designing invitations for an upcoming event. The components of the design world are complex, from font matching and scale to alignment and white space. Allow these 26 incredible design suggestions to guide you through the highs and lows of the creative process. 



01. Limit your typefaces

When selecting a typeface or font for headings, subtitles and body text, use easy to read fonts for simple and effective graphic design. The eye finds it hard to scan multiple typefaces, so stick to a simple collection of fonts. This design uses variants from the Aileron font family, a geometric sans serif typeface that has a simple and modern aesthetic.

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02. Don’t be scared of scale

Apply scale to type, shapes or compositional features that need proportionate emphasis. Use appropriate colors to enhance this technique while making sure suitable typefaces that look good when increased in size. Here, Raleway for the word ‘Scale’ is strong and bold with clear forms.

 

03. Respect the space of other elements

Use letter spacing to fill dead space, aligning text, or condense words that take up too much space. However, be careful not to reduce letter spacing so much it can’t be read, or increase it so much the letters become detached from one another. Here, the decreased letter spacing on the word ‘Respect’ gives a condensed effect, as a visual representation of space, or lack thereof.

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04. 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. Here, bright aqua is offset against forest green background for clarity and readability.

 

05. Create Clean, crisp and clear imagery

Pump up contrast by adjusting the brightness of the background image so that it offsets the text color, making the design clear and easy to read. This is a great way to apply white or black text over an image to create a strong ‘cut-out’ effect.

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06. Use fonts to help inform the mood of your design


Chose a typeface that sings the song of your content. Typefaces with rounded edges are usually a friendlier note, Quicksand is used here); hard-edged geometric fonts (sans serifs) are solid and strong; while serifs convey an elegant and sophisticated look.

 

07. Create order with alignment

Apply a line or an embellishment to for design balance and composition. Here, a line to the left of the text mimics and margin line and anchors the block of text.

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08. Keep your designs simple

Keep it simple, but don’t 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.


 

09. Use the same design elements on every page

The easiest way to ensure aesthetic unity across a document or presentation is by duplicating pages then editing text and replacing images.

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10. Be original

Push your creative abilities and graphic design skills to achieve original graphics. Be inventive and experimental and choose and combine different typefaces and filters. Avoid trends and create designs that correspond with your own unique style, leaving a personal stamp on your work.

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