Design
Teach fundamental yearbook design principles, including how to recognize good design elements, how to start a design from scratch and how to create a basic spread.
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Design Curriculum
Get started with the basics of strong yearbook design. Explore our Yearbook Suite unit, “Understanding Why Design Matters” for a complete foundation, then build your skills with a training video on using hierarchy to guide your reader.
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Design Tools
Get the support you need for every stage of the design process, no matter which yearbook design tool you use.
Find Inspiration
Explore real yearbook examples to find inspiration for layouts, typography, photography and design techniques you can use in your own book.
Finding Your Theme
Get the inspiration and resources you need to develop, refine and execute a theme from cover to closing.
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Cover and Endsheets
Find everything you need to create your cover and endsheets, from cover systems and design resources to artist support, submission guides and personalization options.
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Fonts and Colors
Learn how to use color and typography together to create visually appealing pages and a cohesive yearbook design.
Selecting Your Color Palette
Selecting Your Color Palette will teach your yearbook staff's design team everything they need to know about colors and how they work together, and will help them develop a plan for picking the right colors for your yearbook.
Font Catalog
View Walsworth's fonts available through Online Design and choose your font pairings in our Font Catalog.
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Font Pairings
Learn how to identify different font styles, from classic serifs to modern sans-serifs, expressive scripts, and decorative designs, along with tips for pairing fonts effectively to create visually appealing, cohesive designs.
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Design Your Spread
Plan stronger spreads with checklists, sketch sheets and layout resources designed to help you organize content and create balanced page designs.
Parts of a Spread
Start your class off right by learning parts of a yearbook spread in this Class Starter.
Spread Checklist
Provide this to each designer to ensure a spread doesn't miss the mark.
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Spread Sketching Sheets
Use these spread sketching sheets to plan your spread design.
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Host a Yearbook Spread Draft Day
Turn the stressful task of spread assignments into a much anticipated tradition to start each year.
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