How to Think Like a Visual Designer

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1. How to Think
   Like a Designer
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12. Explore more than one layout
    idea
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35. Choose good fonts
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39. Graphik
    Proxima Nova
    Acumin Pro
    Cerebri Sans
    Inter UI
    GT America
    Encode Sans
    Work Sans
    Available from Commerical Type
    Available on Adobe Fonts and Fonts.com
    Available on Adobe Fonts
    Available from Hanken Design Co.
    Available from rsms.me
    Available from Grilli Type
    Available on Google Fonts
    Available on Google Fonts
    FREE
    FREE
    FREE
    

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43. Choosing color
    

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46. Corner radius
    

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51. Use color and weight to create
    contrast
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55. 1.25rem
    1.25rem
    

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57. Create depth with color
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60. Text color
    Border color
    

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75. Don’t use gray text on a colored
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77. text-gray-300
    

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78. text-indigo-200
    

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79. Background color
    Text color
    

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81. Overlap elements to create
    layers
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87. Don’t scale up icons
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90. Align all the things
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94. Streamline 3.0
    streamlineicons.com
    Pixi
    hellopixi.com
    Heroicons
    heroicons.com
    Heroicons Duo
    Included in Refactoring UI Complete Package
    

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96. .primary { fill: #0D2B3E; }
    .secondary { fill: #A5B3BB; }
    

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99. Switch up the layout
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118. Change the background color
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127. Control shape and size
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133. Dark mode does not mean
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135. Lightest
     

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136. Lightest
     Darkest
     

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138. Darkest
     Lightest
     Lightest
     Darkest
     

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139. Lightest
     Darkest
     Lightest
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144. Prevent clashing colors
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151. Make your ideas look awesome,
     without relying on a designer.
     AVAILABLE NOW
     refactoringui.com/book
     

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