13 Layout Sins

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Centering everything

Avoid centered layouts

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Warped or Naked Photos

Keep photos proportionate, use hairline rules to border photos that have ambiguous edges

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Too Many Fonts

Stick to two fonts per layout

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Bulky Borders and Boxes

Use negative space to group or separate things

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Cheated or missing margins

Be generous with margins, including inset and offset for text and picture boxes

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Stairstepping

Keep headlines in a straight line

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4 Corners and Clutter

Clutter: Bad. Clustering: Good

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Trapped Negative Space

Push extra negative space to the outside edges of your layout

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Busy Backgrounds

Design backgrounds as negative space

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Tacky Type Emphasis

Think twice about reversing, stroking, using all caps or underlining

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Bad Bullets

Use real bullets for lists, and use hanging indents to properly align lists.

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Widows and Orphans

Avoid inelegant breaks at the bottoms and tops of legs of type

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Justified Rivers

Avoid unsightly rivers of negative space flowing through legs of justified type

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