Typography & Layout Design Flashcards

A CCC candidate is designing a social media carousel in Canva. Which layout principle ensures each slide feels connected to the others visually?

Answer: Applying repetition of typefaces, colors, and spacing across slides

Repetition of consistent typographic and layout elements across slides creates visual cohesion, making the carousel feel like a unified piece rather than disconnected images.

When a Canva designer adjusts 'kerning,' what specific typographic adjustment are they making?

Answer: Fine-tuning space between a specific pair of characters

Kerning specifically adjusts the space between individual character pairs (such as 'AV' or 'To') to optically balance the spacing for a more polished appearance.

A client's brand uses a custom font not available in Canva's library. What is the correct approach within Canva for a CCC professional?

Answer: Upload the licensed custom font to Canva's Brand Kit using the font upload feature

Canva allows uploading custom fonts to the Brand Kit (available on Canva for Teams), ensuring brand consistency while respecting the client's established identity.

Which layout approach in Canva best supports accessibility for users with visual impairments when designing text-heavy documents?

Answer: Ensuring high color contrast between text and background (minimum 4.5:1 ratio)

WCAG accessibility guidelines require a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for normal text to ensure readability for users with low vision or color blindness.

What is the advantage of using Canva's 'text styles' feature when working on a multi-page brand document?

Answer: It applies consistent heading and body formatting across the entire document with one click

Canva's text styles allow designers to define and apply consistent typographic formatting (size, font, weight, color) across all instances, ensuring brand consistency without manual formatting of each element.

A Canva design for a printed flyer uses 72px font size. What should the designer verify before sending to print?

Answer: That the design resolution is set to 300 DPI and the font size is appropriate in physical dimensions

For print production, designers must confirm the canvas is set to 300 DPI and verify that font sizes translate to appropriate physical measurements (inches/mm) at the intended print size.

In Canva layout design, the principle of 'proximity' means that elements placed close together are perceived as:

Answer: Being related or belonging to the same group

The Gestalt principle of proximity states that objects near each other are perceived as a group, so designers use spacing to show which elements are related and which are separate.