Visual Hierarchy in Document Design: Balancing Script Fonts with Serif Authority
When designing a formal certificate or institutional charter, typography carries all the structural weight. However, one of the most common mistakes in amateur document design is using too many competing font styles. If every title, name, and date is written in an ornate, loopy script font, the document becomes practically unreadable. On the other hand, […]
Designing Authority: How Document Borders Define the Prestige of an Award
When you glance at a document from a distance, long before you can read a single word of the text or analyze the signatures at the bottom, your brain has already formed an opinion about its importance. How? Through the framework that locks the page together: the border. In professional document design, the border acts […]