Last weekend I read "The non-designers design book". This was an
useful short book on making documents look cool and interesting. The
book was all about choosing fonts and layouts . As I write most of
documents using latex, where Knuth has made most of the design
decisions for me already, this may be of less relevance. However for
talks and seminars, I am getting bored of seeing the same style files
constantly in use.
I was intersted to see that it is better not to center everying on the page, but it can look better to either left or right justify text and pictures.
There are four basic principles
- Contrast
- Repetition
- Alignment
- Proximity
Perhaps I will now try reading Designers Are Wankers