8 Practical tips for PPT flat design

8 Practical tips for PPT flat design

Flattening is the current mainstream design style, this article summed up the flat design of the 8 tips, fonts, icons, typesetting, color, etc. are mentioned, tutorials simple, very suitable for beginners, the institute can be directly used as posters and PPT design.

Recently helped a senior to do a PPT, with almost everyone has heard the flat style. So the iron is hot, looking for some flat works and articles to see, his flat to make a summary, I hope to you ppt or poster design help.

Note: The flattening here refers to a large concept, which is derived from the so-called "flattened" also included.

Tip 1: About highlights, gradients, and projections

The three main elements of flat wind are said on the net: go to the high light, go to the gradient, go to the shadow. So that's a bit of absolute, I think it should be removed from the transition of high light, transition gradient, transition shadow. In this article, flattened high light, stepped gradient, and so-called long projections are allowed.

Tip 2: Use flattened icons

Using an icon with a clear meaning can make your design less monotonous and engaging.

Tip 3: Shape and color of a color block

Color block in the flat design occupies a very important position, almost we see all the flat design is inseparable from the color block.

With respect to the shape of the color block, the base shape has circles, triangles, quads, Pentagon, and hexagon, and be careful not to use more than six sides of the shape, so that people will begin to count the number of sides of the shape and ignore the message you want to convey.

Some people prefer to use the base shape with rounded corners in the flat design.

About the color swatch, and there is no special requirements, but I personally prefer to use less vivid glare of the color, the use of mild, saturation is not high color more to my appetite.

In the flat design, if the pursuit of reliable, stable, safe, calm style, then I will choose a main color and with the main color with four or five kinds of color, if I pursue lively, youthful, full of vitality style, then I choose the auxiliary color and the main color is completely different color.

In flat design, black and white and varying degrees of ash are important because they are white, so black and white dust may be a good choice when you don't know what color to use.

TIP 4: A combination of color blocks

In addition to the underlying shapes, you can derive more combinations of shapes from the underlying shapes. But it is not recommended to have more than three different combinations of base shapes, which will leave your design out of flat simplicity.

TIP5: Selection of fonts

Please select No liner body, the common Chinese sans serif has Microsoft ya Black, bold, young round, Zhang Haishan Sharp italics, founder-intellectual arts and so on.

TIP6: Focus on typesetting

In the flat design in particular to pay attention to typesetting, here again to sacrifice the design of the four principles:

Alignment, intimacy, repetition, contrast. After you put a color block or text, be sure to check to see if the above four criteria are met.

Note that when you place text inside the color block, you need to set aside breathing space.

TIP 7: Use of pictures

If you want to use the picture in the flat design, there are three kinds of common treatment methods:

Plain color block/text + picture

Crush Treatment

Fuzzy processing

TIP 8: Use a combination of different color blocks to make a pseudo icing

This is the so-called "flattened" part, but it can still give our design a simple but without losing the sense of beauty, so I am here to sum up. Like we did before. Lowpoly and long projection designs fall into this category.

The most common means is to use different saturation of the color block to create false lighting effect, to give people three-dimensional.

Finally, in any case, keep in mind that the core of flattening is simplicity.

Rules are used to break, but before breaking the rules, you need to know what the rules are. Neither the four principles of design nor the flattening of these tips are not to be challenged, you can boldly jump out of these rules, innovation is needed, but until then, mastering these rules is necessary.