LEARN BY DOING
A little practice.↗
Move, adjust, notice. Fourteen short exercises to turn ideas into intuition.
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Visual hierarchy
Make importance visible.
Balance
Distribute attention deliberately across the frame.
Negative space
Treat empty space as part of the composition.
Rule of thirds
Use thirds as a starting point for off-center placement.
Proximity
Put related things closer together.
Alignment
Give elements a shared edge or axis.
Spacing system
Choose gaps from a small reusable scale.
Line length
Keep paragraphs comfortably narrow.
Line height
Give lines enough separation to read as lines.
Letter spacing & kerning
Separate overall spacing from individual letter-pair spacing.
Text contrast
Measure text contrast against its actual background.
Meaning beyond color
Do not make color the only carrier of information.
Cropping
Keep the part of the image that tells the story.
Responsive composition
Recompose for the space instead of shrinking everything.