31 Best Design Tips Every Graphic Designer Should Know



Best Useful Design Tips: All graphic designers should follow certain rules, and tips that can increase the visual appeal of their graphics. Branding and publishing professional work following the design tips will improve every designer’s output for sure. Poppie Pack who worked as a senior graphic designer at Canva has illustrated 50 beautiful graphics with design tips to make you a better designer.

We’ve selected best 31 out of the lot to share with you all.

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Follow these 31 best useful design tips for graphic designers:

1. Use letter spacing and line height to make your text fit your page.

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2. Tip: Contrasting typefaces make a great duo.

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3. Create strong graphics with the application of saturation and a bold typeface.

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4. Aesthetics! Composition! Adjust all the elements in your graphic so they are on corresponding angles.

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5. Crop images to let them act as background textures.

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6. Let your background determine how you align your text. Find space with less noise for placement.

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7. Use strong, geometric typefaces to amplify your message.

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8. Instead of using solid colors, try increasing the transparency of your elements a little for a more subtle effect.

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9. Use shapes to create contrast and offset your text from your background image.

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10. When using a shape to contain your text, apply a color from your background to your type for a cut-out effect.

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11. Use light and bold font variants for emphasis and impact.

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12. Use the combination of a tint and x-process to create two-tone filter effects.

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13. Typefaces have personalities too. Make sure you represent your message with the right fonts.

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14. Use different fonts on the same words and see how their tone differs.

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15. Enhance the freshness of dull images by increasing the brightness in your filter panel.

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