today six typography mistakes that you want to avoid when you're designing a
poster so follow along as I show you how to avoid these six mistakes in real time
examples on actual poster designs
what is that people welcome back to Satori graphics the homograft design
content right here on youtube today I have six mistakes that you want to avoid
when using typography in your poster designs to make sure that you really
understand why these mistakes need to be avoided I'm going to show you the mantra
poster designs making it easier for you to learn all about typography mistakes
when poster designing the first mistake that designers make is not to make good
use of hierarchy this is where a designer will make important or
attention-grabbing text quite bold or quite large on the design and then make
other less important sections of typography that much smaller this not
only looks visually appealing but a Drule attention to certain areas of the
design and it brings in an audience as you can see in the second design there's
a lack of good hierarchy used on the poster
the second mistake that you need to avoid when using typography on a poster
design is not clearing up rag edges on main body of texts as you can see here
on the paragraph that I've made the edge is a nice and clean ie not wrecked
however on the second example you can see how untidy and how unprofessional
things actually look so just be aware and make sure that your typography is
not rag edged like in the second example
the third mistake today is a big one that beginner designers often make and
that is by not using typography that fits a content or the context say my
pace through the modern cutting edge and is geometric by using the fonts I've
seen in the second example things don't really fit together with a narrative or
the style of the design so be aware of the context of your design and also the
content the fourth tip on avoiding typography mistakes on a poster is to
make sure that you align aspects of your typography on the page the design itself
not only should you align text a text but it also helps to align typography to
other design objects too as you can see along the right-hand edge on the first
design the fifth mistake that you need to avoid when using typography on a
poster is to make sure that your leading is nicely spread apart
letting refers to the space between each line of text and it needs to be not too
far apart but also as you can see on the second design it shouldn't be too
closely packed together either this renders the typography unlevel and
obviously that's not good
and the last mistake to avoid a day is again another main body of text tip and
that is to make sure that your tracking is in the right distance the tracking is
a space between each letter as a whole on your typography much like in the last
point if your tracking is not perfect it makes it very difficult for someone to
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