Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
- Use near-black and near-white instead of pure black and white
- Saturate your neutrals
- If you saturate your neutrals you should use warm or cool colours, not both
- Use high contrast for important elements
- Everything in your design should be deliberate
- Optical alignment is often better than mathematical alignment
- Lower letter spacing and line height with larger text. Raise them with smaller text
- Container borders should contrast with both the container and the background
- Everything should be aligned with something else
- Colours in a palette should have distinct brightness values
- Closer elements should be lighter
- Make drop shadow blur values double their distance values
- Keep container colours within brightness limits
- Make horizontal padding twice the vertical padding in buttons
- Nest corners properly
- Don’t put two hard divides next to each other
March 21, 2023 at 2:51:25 PM EDT
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