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Welcome to the Splash Box Resource Library! This is your one-stop-shop for our growing collection of practical tools, guides, and insights designed to make the Internet a more accessible place for everyone. You’ll find that accessibility is the heart of what we do, but we our resources also explore related areas and services like graphic design, copywriting, education, tips and tools for seniors, and other topics dear to our staff. Whether you’re a remediator, educator, advocate, or lifelong learner, our curated content is here to support thoughtful, accessible, and impactful work.
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How to Organize and Design Digital Form Fields in Adobe Acrobat
When you’re making a digital form in Adobe Acrobat, creating the fillable fields doesn’t mean you are finished. A form that looks cluttered, with misaligned, uneven, or poorly designed fields can confuse users and reduce completion rates. Fortunately, Adobe Acrobat includes powerful tools that help you align, space, and style form fields so your digital forms look clean, professional, and easy to use.
Charles Cook
Feb 174 min read
How to Create a Basic Adobe Acrobat Form
Creating forms is often viewed as an intimidating or difficult task, especially for people who don’t work with documents or design tools on a regular basis. Once someone designs a form in Word, Excel, or any other design software, they sometimes desire to turn it into a digital form for online use. The challenge for most can be setting up interactive fields, such as text boxes, checkboxes, and drop-down menus, as this may feel daunting to those who have never done it.
Charles Cook
Jan 213 min read
Creating Calm: How Graphic Design Can Impact Your Mental Health
Graphic design is woven into nearly every aspect of our lives – from websites and social media to documents, street signs, and digital communications. We often judge graphic design by its looks and how it represents its brand, but did you know that good (or bad) design can also impact your mental health? Thoughtful graphic design can reduce stress, support focus, and create a sense of calm.
Shelby Ruch
Jan 63 min read
Utilizing the Concepts in the Color Wheel to Elevate Your Branding
Color wheels can make the job of the graphic designer or marketing director a little easier when determining a set of branding colors.
Jenny Woldt
May 6, 20252 min read
How To Prevent Your Company Emails from Going to Spam
Are you frustrated and tired of dealing with emails consistently landing in recipients’ spam folders?
Kenny Thomas
Jan 14, 20256 min read
Color Contrast and Web Accessibility
Color contrast is essential not only to web accessibility but also to a quality user experience. It is the difference in color and brightness between two different shades, usually a background and a foreground color. If the color contrast is too low, text might be difficult or impossible to read for people who are hard of sight – and possibly even for people with perfect vision. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) specify color contrast ratios for foreground and b
Jessie Moser
Sep 5, 20232 min read
How to Create and Leverage Patterns to Boost Your Branding
If you already have a nice logo and color palette, you may be wondering why do I need a pattern? Patterns are an easy way to elevate your branding. They may even become as recognizable as your logo. Take Burberry’s pattern as an example. Their signature plaid pattern is almost as important to their branding as their logo. As soon as you see the familiar tan plaid pattern on a bag or other item, you probably think, “that must be a Burberry.” Patterns are a great way to bring a
Jessie Moser
Jan 24, 20234 min read
How Color Contrast and ADA Compliance Can Improve User Experience
We've previously discussed font tips for ADA accessibility. However, typography is just one component of overall design accessibility. Design accessibility plays a huge role in ensuring that the end user can interact with and respond to whatever you design. Designing from an accessibility standpoint has the potential to benefit all participants, not just people with disabilities, because accessible design typically delivers a better user experience for everyone. You might be
Jessica Porreca, Pharm D
Nov 30, 20222 min read
Font Tips for Accessibility
Many ads, both digital and printed, are designed without regard to design accessibility.
Jessica Porreca, Pharm D
Oct 28, 20223 min read
Never Underestimate The Influence Of the Color Wheel on Branding
Color wheels really make the job of the graphic designer or marketing director a little easier when determining a series of branding colors for a company. It is important to have a solid selection of colors that will enhance your marketing pieces and make them all have a cohesive look and feel that becomes your brand. You want these colors to convey a mood or feeling about your product. You also need to think about all the various places you'll be promoting your product. F
Splash Box Marketing
Sep 18, 20182 min read
Branding… Look like a big fish, even when you're not
As entrepreneurs growing a new business, we usually focus on just getting the job done as best we can. As a result, we tend to ignore our brand identity. There are so many balls we are trying to keep in the air and so many hats we are wearing: the sales person, the accountant, the face of the company, the grunt labor, and many more. We focus on our daily to-do list and have a hard time putting effort into something that doesn’t yield immediate returns, like working on our b
Splash Box Marketing
Sep 18, 20187 min read
5 Little Tips To Achieve The Best Results In Graphic Design
We've all seen ads, flyer, billboards and logos that make us scratch our heads and wonder what the artist was thinking. Here are 5 tips to keep in mind when designing a quality marketing piece. 1. Fonts -- as a general rule, don't use more than 2 different fonts on your piece. Keep it simple. Using one serif font and one san serif font can be a good rule to follow. Use the serif font for your headlines and the san serif font for body copy. This gives emphasis to importa
Splash Box Marketing
Sep 18, 20182 min read
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