Practical ways of formatting your letterheads
In this guide, I will teach you how to format your custom letterheads in a practical and effective manner. These tips will help you truly make your designs appropriate for professional letterhead printing. So read on and remember these facts, it will be really helpful.
• Use a minimal amount of font styles – Most do not need a lot of font styles. In fact one or two should be enough to make them look professional. It is only practical to do this because they should be easily understood and look as formal as possible so that people can respect what is on the letterhead paper. So never use a lot of different font styles. Just use the minimum amount necessary.
• Use font size as a tool for emphasis – A good practical way to provide emphasis in certain parts is to change some font sizes. You do not need to use different font styles. By just making some text elements bigger or smaller than the rest, you can easily emphasize certain areas of your letterhead for great effect.
So, for example, most people use larger font sizes for their name or the company name on the letterhead, while other details like contact information and business information have smaller fonts. This effectively draws people to the larger sized text, helping to emphasize the most important parts of the letterhead. You might want to try this trick. It should be subtle but quite effective.
• Try bold and italic effects for ordering content – Besides font sizes though, bold and italic effects can also have a good impact on your color letterhead content. You can use bold to make important details of the letterhead pop out, while italicizing some other text content can help mark certain content as different from the rest. These tricks are especially useful for added information in letterheads such as contact information, addresses, telephone numbers and even slogans or quotations.
• Integrate images and logos smoothly – Lastly, I should tell you that is it important and very practical to always integrate images and logos smoothly. Do not let your images be placed with harsh dividing lines or line terminators. Your images and logos must be inserted smoothly with faded blending effects or great color backgrounds. This not only helps smoothen the design, but it also makes it a lot easier for people to read with smooth transitions.
Great! Hopefully these practical tips can help you in formatting quite effectively. Try them out now for your printing project.
