Thoughts on graphic design, typography & accessible PDF
Blog archive
How we can work together on accessible PDFs
Acronyms & initialisms
The best fonts for accessibility
Colour contrast for accessibility
How to tell if a PDF is accessible
Design accessibility standards: design beyond aesthetics
Design for communication: design beyond aesthetics
Design theories: design beyond aesthetics
Design beyond aesthetics
Print & the environment
Five psychological advantages of print
Five practical advantages of print
Print as a point of difference
Branding is more than just your logo
Brand foundations
Emphasizing your point
What to include in visual identity guidelines
Why you need visual identity guidelines
Commissioning a web designer
Four simple document binding options explained
How to choose a printing company
How to design without a designer: a six step process
Why is business stationery important?
What is verbal identity?
Eight reasons to use freelance creatives
Large scale ideas
What is visual identity?
Small scale ideas
Maximizing the value of printed brochures
Z-card ideas
Typeface licensing
Lovely ligatures
Saving money with correct colour specifications
The importance of ‘why?’
How useful are templates?
Briefing a designer
How to use paragraph styles
Choosing a file format for your logo
Using capitals without shouting
The uncomfortable world of forms
An introduction to vectors
Pass the phrasebook
Thermography
Comic Sans
Printing green
Is traditional marketing dead?
Approaching a rebrand
Thinking about rebranding?
Octothorpe – the many lives of one sort
Harnessing the effectiveness of touch
Peppering the page – unnecessary punctuation
How we read & why that matters
Form follows function
Putting a freelance designer at the heart of your project
Commissioning an illustrator
Painting a thousand words
Size matters
Finding the right words
Two line English Egyptian
Set in diamond
Embossing & debossing
Kiss vs thump
Cutting a dash
Fifty shades of green (but not the one you want)
Choosing the right typeface for your business/brand
Why fonts really do matter
Typesetting – the finishing touches
The Reflex Blues
Paper finishes demystified
The swinging 60s and all that! Memories of a compositor
Getting it printed
What is a serif?
Golden numbers
Seven steps to more professional typesetting
Type size demystified
