Questions tagged [best-practice]
Questions about preferred methods of achieving an effect or other result. Using best practices may affect, amongst others, compatibility, degradation, and usability.
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How to best linebreak a book title on the title page?
Are there any general rules one should apply when typesetting the title page of a book? In general, depending on parameters such as font size and page size, line breaks may have to occur at different ...
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When creating curves, are more points better? Why?
On the left, I converted the letter "O" into curves. On the right, I have created the same shape with significantly fewer points. When printed, no one would be able to tell the difference. ...
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What's the best practice for outlining text for print?
Just picking your brains for how you have found to be the best practice for outlining text that you might need to update in the future. Say I have a file that I need to outline text to send to print. ...
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What's procedurally important in web building circa 2022?
I'm essentially seeking a "crash course" or explanation in any web building changes over the past few years - best practices, new methods, new pitfalls, etc. It's been a number of years ...
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Is it unprofessional to use whimsical names as sample data in your designs?
I'm a junior developer/designer at a startup so I am wondering if it is unprofessional to make designs and use mock data that have puns. The company I work for is not strict and wouldn't mind if the ...
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Is it OK to only use the wordmark of a logo?
I have a logo that resides in this category: Combination mark When a symbol and a wordmark fall in love, they make a logo. More specifically, a combination mark (a traditional logo) is comprised of a ...
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Why would I ever NOT use percentage for sizes?
I am an embedded programmer (no GUI), who codes Angular, and, occasionally, Flutter, for fun. In general, my apps work, but look like an early 90s GeoCities site :-) On thing that I just can't get my ...
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When advertising a URL, should the leading https:// be included?
I realize this question belongs more on the Digital Marketing Stack Exchange, but since that experimental SE was deleted, I'm dropping it here. Please forgive me. I'm working on a flyer that has a URL,...
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Arguments for or against adopting design guidelines in a different context than intended
I'm working on the educational exhibit signage for a forest-preserve visitor center. The forest preserve has a book of branding standards, but the standards seem to apply mostly to outdoor ...
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Best practice for cap height and x-height for bilingual sign-making inside and outside of a public institution: a hospital
Whats is the best practice for cap height and x-height for sign-making inside and outside of a hospital? I have to design some bilingual signs for a hospital. I have some problems because I don't ...
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Best practice: keep icons as strokes or outline?
I am currently working on generating the icon assets for the company I work for. I am using Sketch, and am creating a large library of the icons. They are all Line icons (the style) and basically ...
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Should the font in a logo be used otherwise in the corporate identity?
I'm currently working on an small project and want to know, if the font which you use in the logo, should also be used as, for example, headlines?
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Optical corrections - is it ok to make a logo mark a little off center to balance it off?
Here is an example I am working on: The left one if is visualy more balanced to me (it's compensating the off balance of the mark which is lighter on the right) and the right one is perfectly ...
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Is Illustrator accurate for business card sizes?
I've just created my first business card in Illustrator. It has the standard UK business card size of 55 x 85 mm, a 3mm bleed, 300 DPI and the rest of it, and my smallest font-size is 8.94 points, ...
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Just how much information should you share with a former client?
I know this is subjective to a degree. I am asking for best practice or experienced input. TL;DR: How willing should a designer be to share specific job specifications with a past client after the ...
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