Clear & effective design for print & accessible PDF

Build trust and credibility for your organization with publications that are easier for your target audience to read, understand and act upon.

Design services

Two spreads from a brochure I designed for The Gentle Touch Dental Practice

Graphic design

Clear and effective printed brochures, reports and business documents designed to help you sell, explain and interact with your target audience.

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Accessible PDFs

Open up your marketing to the broadest possible audience, with user-friendly design in an accessible PDF format that passes PAC 2024 checks for PDF/UA compliance.

Sample pages from insurance policies I typeset for MB&G insurance

Typesetting

When you already have a design but need a set of text-rich documents creating in the same format.

Who I’ve worked for…

Association of Heads of University Administration
Canal & River Trust
Citizens Advice Bureau
CSL Vifor
The Gentle Touch
Kidney Research UK
Pickle Jar Communications
Police Investigations & Review Commissioner
Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk
SAMH
Streets Ahead
United World Colleges
Preparing content for accessible PDF design

Getting started with accessible PDFs

FREE introduction to preparing content for accessible PDF

Accessible PDFs can feel daunting if you’re accustomed to producing content for printed publications. This brief introduction covers seven key aspects, and has a handy checklist of things your designer will need.

Latest design for print articles

The words 'Colour is the fruit of life. Apollinaire' written in red text on a pale turquoise background.

Typography

Accessible colour contrast for text

We publish content to communicate a message – to explain or inform, sell a product or service, or keep people safe. But your audience will not receive your message if they cannot read it. This blog post looks specifically at colour contrast for text, including some examples I’ve spotted ‘in the wild’ as a fun quiz!

A jigsaw puzzle of a project process diagram with three lettica-branded pieces labelled Indesign file preparation, remediation and testing

Design

Working together on accessible PDF projects – the process

You are probably familiar with the project process for creating printed documents. The process for producing accessible PDFs is similar but with crucial differences that will affect your project schedule and budget, so it is well worth understanding in advance.

Typesetting and accessibility of acronyms and initialisms

Typography

Acronyms & initialisms

All industries have acronyms and initialisms. These are undoubtedly time-saving when communicating with people within your business or industry. But they can make other readers feel ignorant and excluded, disrupt the reading process and cause problems for screen readers.