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Use contrasts to heighten visual interest – light and darker colors, large and small sizes, Serif and Sans serif, full and empty, proximity versus distance, balance and imbalance, shades of gray versus colors.

If you wish to strongly separate two areas visually, use lines as separators, but keep in mind that lines can be a barrier to natural eye tracking.

Consider white space as more than the absence of content, but an active element in showcasing your text and images.

Typography is the central concern in a textual document, legibility and readability are paramount.

At the same time, contradicting this can heighten the interest and energy in your layout.

Since in most Western languages we read from left to right, top to bottom, this is also how we scan a page, so consider this as you arrange various objects.

Prioritize the information on the page– sometimes literally squinting as you look at the page will show you what immediately stands out visually, and there should be some hierarchy of attracting your attention, but hopefully no more than 3 levels of hierarchy.

Begin with 2 or 3 elements, whether these might be some initial color choices, or objects on the page, then gradually build from there, trying to avoid what we might call a "layout pizza", with way too much of everything on it.

While there certainly are no hard and fast rules to designing layout, and sometimes of course breaking rules can be an intentional aspect, here are some things to consider: For example, in a 4-column text layout, you might have an image somewhere spanning 3 columns. If you have any patterns, then this will be an additional choice in the drop-down list where you find gradients, after which you can choose a pattern as a background for your frame.Īny time you are working, and as of yet have no actual content, you may find this a good time to manipulate a collection of frames for a pleasing result.

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The minimum number of these triangles is two.Īs was indicated in the chapter Choosing colors, you may either download or create patterns from various Scribus objects. If you want to delete one of these, click-drag it vertically from the color bar. In addition, you may add more triangles by bringing the mouse cursor up below the color bar and clicking (once) – you should see the cursor change to a + when you are able to make a new triangle. You can also slide these triangles nearer to each other. Click on the other triangle to select it to change its color. Choose a different color and you should now see a gradient. This is the selected point for the color which is highlighted in your color list. Note that there are two triangle markers below the color bar, and that one of them is red. If you choose one of these, the first thing you will see when a color bar appears below the gradient choice is that you still only have a solid color, since you must choose the colors for the gradient you wish to use. Just below the fill and stroke buttons is a drop-down list, where Normal denotes a solid color, then below that you have a list of various gradients.

The paintbrush icon denotes the border, also known as stroke.Īside from using a solid color, you also have the option of creating a gradient for the fill color. The frame itself is a vector object, but for text and image frames the default is for its background and border to have no color.

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Giving a background color to a frame is a simple matter of going to the Properties palette (opened up with Windows > Properties, or pressing F2), then from the Color tab choosing a color from your color palette, making sure the Fill button is selected (the icon looks like a spilling bucket). Remember, this is set with Page > Snap to Guides.Ĭolors, gradients, and patterns in frames Use the Snap to feature to align them with your guides as needed. One way of beginning your layout is to create a number of empty frames of various types, sized and positioned for a pleasing appearance. If you right-click on a frame to bring up the context menu, from which you will see Convert to, with some choices. If you convert a text frame to an image frame, the text disappears. The name frame comes from the device of that name used in the days of typesetting with lead type, which was a physical wooden frame to hold the type together.įrames serve as containers for whatever you wish to have on your page, and for the most part one kind of frame can be converted to another, but note that a frame can only have one kind of content. Now that you've created your Master Page, and have your guides in place, it's time to begin the work of adding your text and graphic content.Īs you discovered in the chapter Hands-on, your content will be placed in frames, which might be called boxes in other programs.