Questions tagged [style]
Questions about a specific visual language, the use of text, graphics and images recognisable as belonging to a certain method, type, use, and/or time period.
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Why do some fonts make I, l, 1 look the same?
Why do some fonts make the I,l,1 characters look identical?
There are fonts where they don't just look similar - they are the same exact pixel locations.
Why were they ever created?
I'm guessing ...
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What is minimalism in graphic design?
What is minimalism in graphic design and how can one apply this concept to a design? I keep seeing the term minimalist design while reading graphic-related websites and magazines, but I'm not so sure ...
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Is there a name for the general style of designers like Vignelli, Müller-Brockmann, Jacqueline Casey, etc...?
A lot of the great Graphic Designers in history, like Massimo Vignelli, Josef Müller-Brockmann, and Jacqueline Casey seem to have a specific style that I want to emulate for a project, and I'd like ...
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What are the major design trends in graphic design history
I'm reasonably familiar with design trends and movements of architecture and, to a lesser extent, art; and i've been interested that many of the asthetic considerations and philosophies loosly lumped ...
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IS ALL CAPS EVER OK?
I'm recreating a Character Sheet for an RPG, but it might as well be a form.
In the original sheet I notice that all the text is in capital letters.
At first I thought it was in small-caps, but it isn'...
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Illustrator: Editing a custom graphic style
I created an additive graphic style that includes a few effects, and applied this style to a few objects.
Now I'd like to make a change to this style and apply the change to all objects. For example, ...
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How Should One Modulate White Space?
How should one modulate white space within an image, poster, or a logo? Some people say that there should be a certain amount of white space available within an image to make it appealing, while ...
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What is this design style called in which lots of simple polygons make up an image?
What is the design style called where they create form with simple shapes, usually triangles like they have done with the ground in the Chrome Maze Experiment
Or like the images below:
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What is Albrecht Dürer's Perspective Machine drawing style?
This style of drawing always fascinates me but I can't find what this category is.
Here is another example from Eric Mahler:
And another one from Tom Gauld:
Line Drawing doesn't quite fit. Is ...
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Designing for a 6in x 9in book
I am putting a text heavy book together, 6in x 9in paper size. (Perhaps related are this and this link.)
Now I look for good font pairings (nice examples are here) and margin settings and line ...
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How do you overcome indecision when designing for yourself?
I am a successful freelance web designer. I find client projects easy, I usually hit the nail on the head first time for 90% of the design work I do - regardless of what style it is: boutique cake ...
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Seeking advice to improve the design of my minimalist calculator [closed]
A while ago, I built a count down timer app based on a designer's free giveaway. It turns out users like it and it is even mentioned on beautifulpixels.
This time I'm building a calculator named ...
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What are "up-to-date" or "modern" icons?
My icons have been (lightly) criticized as "too 1998-ish":
http://www.sellmycalls.com/pics/98ish-icons.png
From left to right: refresh; auto/manual refresh toggle; filters; favorites; alerts.
To ...
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Default style of arrows in Inkspace
Is there a way to set default settings of the arrow marker in Inkspace with a given color and style? Currently I copy/paste the line shown below into documents to retain the style.
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Difference between brand/design style guide and a UI Pattern Library and how to avoid conflicts?
What is normally covered in a brand style guide that is not included in a standard design style guide in the context of traditional and digital production? Does the brand style guide only cover the ...
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What kind of art style does Kurzgesagt use?
Kurzgesagt has a very distinctive, vector-based animation style that uses lots of gradients and an attractive, high-saturation colour palette.
My question is, what kind of art style is this?
I ...
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How can one create a design style?
How can a person create a style of graphics that uniquely identifies that person?
I've often heard of many forms of art the importance of creating a style, how does this apply to graphic design?
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How can I create imagery for cyber security and cyberspace general while avoiding that late 90's early 2000's look?
If you were to do a google image search for cyber security you'd see exactly what I mean. Even the slickest images representing cyber security or cyberspace seem to fall under a style that IMO is very ...
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How to create a consistent style across stock images for a website?
I am currently applying changes to this site.
Becky, my customer, demands that the images be changed so that
the image content will also be compatible with each other.
I tried using icons and vector ...
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How to classify the style of Guild Wars 2?
I need some photoshop brushes, and I swear I've seen the name of this style before - http://www.guildwars2.com/en/
I absolutely love that grungey/painted style, but no matter what I'm searching in my ...
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How can I best achieve this "Victorian" style?
First of all, is there a particular name for such an art style?
And also I'm not expecting a quick "here's how you do this" type of answer and I understand that it may just be a case of me studying ...
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How to reveal female symbol a little more in this design?
Here, I've merged Female symbol and letter H. Now, H is clearly visible, and you can see a female symbol, but left part of symbol seems never ending (that is a letter L). Right part is fine.
Given ...
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How can I make my graphics look less "cartoony"?
To begin with, I'm a programmer -- not a graphic designer, so I'm not very good at making pleasing looking images. But I want some that at least look decent enough for version 1 of my video app, and ...
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What is this graphic art style called?
There is this type of graphic art that involves using only parts of the picture to trick me as if I am seeing the whole picture.
For example, you might include a few stripes and an eye, all placed ...
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Is there a term for vertically low typefaces?
I am looking for a choice of fonts where (in capitals) the horizontal lines are relatively low. For example in this Martini logo:
The horizontal in the A and R are way below the middle of the shape. ...
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How to make 3-dot icon visible on any background?
There is a file manager in my application. Hovering the files shows a 3-dot icon at the top-right corner. The problem is, that it is difficult to make it visible enough on different backgrounds, since ...
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How to create filling letter template?
I need to create letter template for one company which will keep a format styles unchanged (to keep united design across all letters which are sent from the company) but allow users to add specific ...
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Looking for inspiration: examples of a web calendar with fancy "pop-up" details for each day
I'm designing a web calendar application. The starting view shows a small-ish calendar with a number of events listed on each day. The calendar cell for today, for example, contains the words "March ...
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Are there any rules of thumb / guidelines to optimize / balance this design?
Considering the following panel, are there any rules of thumb, tricks or guidelines to optimize / balance the look?
This is the panel with vertical measurements:
The panel is part of a website, in ...
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Does this art style in Hannes Johannes animations have a name?
I am really in to this kind of art style:
http://www.hannesjohannes.com/
It heavily features lines and dots to create textures and shading. Is there a specific name for that kind of style? The image ...
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What 1990s graphic design trends are still considered modern?
Are there any parts about 1990s graphic design that are still considered modern or retro? I'm talking about certain colors, fonts, patterns, etc.
Hotline Miami for example has a graphic style, that I ...
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Why is SunBurst background so popular and are there any other ones?
I keep seeing SunBurst Background Pattern for years, literally! and It is still trendy. Why is it still so? Do we lack creativity for similar generic (or focus drawing) background patterns or human ...
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Does this particular style of image mashups have a specific name?
This style of image mashups is very popular in digital news magazines. Does the style have a specific name?
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Indesign: how to style a paragraph so that it will occupy no vertical space in the document flow (similar to "float" in css)
I am laying out a book that has line numbers on every fifth line. I want it to look like this:
line # text line text line text line text line text
text line text line text line text ...
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What are common attributes to psychadelic designs?
I am looking for color combinations and effects which give us the feeling of something "psychedelic."
Sometimes there are the color combinations, sometimes the objects relations - some shadows create ...
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Adobe Illustrator: Deboss or Engrave Effect
I'd like to create a realistic debossed (indented), recessed or engraved effect. Often seen on tactile commercial products, particularly for embellishing text and symbols. Here's an example of a gear ...
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What is this Polish inspired style called?
There is a font called Kapra and I really like the style it uses in the example images. What would I look up to find more stuff like this?
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What is this design trend/style called
I'm having a hard time figuring out what this design trend/style is called.
I have a logo given to me by a client. I've seen this style of logo many times on the web. However, I do not know the ...
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InDesign: Resetting character style after end of paragraph
Is there a way (a setting or a shortcut) in InDesign to reset a character style to None after the end of a paragraph?
Paragraph styles have the option for Next Style, but this does not apply to ...
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Can a visual identity evolve?
Iv been given a creative director as my first job and am developing our visual identity from scratch.. We are an outdoor media owner.. If created a simple cartoony style for all our illustration.. Can ...
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What make the colors in this picture look soft?
See this image:
http://soranootoshimono.wikia.com/wiki/File:46456845235358656364.png
To me it look soft like some sort of low-pass filter but I also can see sharp edge of the image.
I'm curious ...
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Website Style Guide Creation
I'm working for a client that requires me to create website style guides from detailed photoshop mockups of the already designed website. These style guides are then passed on to the actual developers ...
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What is the difference between Rococo and Baroque design
I want to incorporate Rococo style into my graphic design projects, but i'm having trouble distinguishing between Rococo and Baroque design features.
What is the philosphy behind both Rococo and ...
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Specific name of "line in taxicab geometry" art style wanted
I've always been trying to look for the name of a specific art style that consists of many lines traversing in a grid, like in a taxicab geometry. An example would be this picture, an image from a ...
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How to set the default line cap and corner style in Illustrator CS5
How do I set the Round cap and Round join as the default line behaviour in Illustrator?
Now when I create a line the cap is set to Butt cap and Miter join by default.
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What is the difference between a website Style Guide and a Pattern Library?
As per the question, I am currently trying to identify a clear difference between a Style Guide and a Pattern Library within the context of Web Design and Development.
Logically, I feel I have an ...
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Why iOS system grays have a slight blue hue?
The light system gray defined by Apple Guidelines for iOS12 (and used by the default color scheme of the UI controls), is defined as #EFEFF4 (HSB(240,2,96)). It means that the hue is a little bit blue....
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Is my logo looking grungy and do you get that its Bad in a good way?
Hey all. My boyfriend needs a logo for an online/home business building custom saltwater fish tanks, and I happen to be a graphic designer.
I only have 3 or so years of experience, so I guess you ...
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Name for noir-esque art style in the Burial at Sea promotional art?
BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea Episode One has a very cool illustration for the cover artwork:
I initially would say its art style is "noir" but when I did a Google Images search for "noir art" it ...
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What is this black and white graphical style called?
What is this style refereed to as? Image is from a promotion for the show The Mighty Boosh. I keep wanting to call it Banksy but that's not it...
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