How to Design Text in UI/UX: Tips for Readability, Accessibility, and Styles
Learn the essentials of designing text in UI/UX, from typescale and font selection to alignment and spacing. Enhance usability, accessibility, and style with expert tips.
Designing text in UI design is a fundamental skill that ensures user interfaces are clear, engaging, and functional.
Enhances readability and usability
Strengthens brand identity
Improves accessibility
While designing text might seem simple at first glance, there are many factors one has to consider. Let’s dive in.
Establish Typescale
Choose between a modular and a hand-crafted scale to ensure consistency throughout your design.
Start with a base value (16px).
Apply a ratio (4:5) to your base value.
Avoid fractional values.
Pick Solid Fonts
We recommend picking fonts like Inter to play it safe. Google Fonts is a great source.
Pick simple fonts.
Check out Google Fonts.
Minimize amount of fonts (2 max).
Choose Line Height
Picking a too small line height will make your text look cramped. We recommend the following values.
Headings: 120% of the font size.
Body Text: 150% of the font size.
Feel free to adjust - line height is a spectrum.
Master Alignment
Most text should be left aligned. If you choose otherwise it has to be used effectively.
Left-align is the safest way to go.
Don’t center long-form text.
Master Spacing
When placing text on your canvas it is important to keep the following principles in mind.
Decrease spacing when elements belong together.
Increase spacing to distinguish elements from each other.
First add whitespace - remove it afterwards.
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