1. Design Principles • Font Families • There are 3 major font families: • Serif – font with a foot. Example: Time • San serif – font without a foot • Example: Aril • Fun – all other fonts. Example: Giddyupstd • Proximity • Keep items that are related with each other together, keep others far, far away. • Do NOT leave a blank line between a story’s title and the story. • They are related, keep them together! • Use white space to provide distance between unrelated items. Aisha Mahmood April 16, 2013

2. Alignment • There are 4 alignments: • Left – Use for large blocks of text that need to be read. This is a traditional style. • Right – Use for tittles and small amounts of text. This funky. • Centered – Use for titles is formal. • Block – use in newspapers. • Contrast • Visual attraction on the page. • Keep elements the same or very different. • Make darks dark and light items light. • Place dark text on a light background and light text on a dark background. • Make big items bigandsmall ones small. • Repetitions • Aim for consistency. • Repetition will strengthen the reader’s sense of recognition. • Repeat elements throughout your document.