Guides

Guides from actual design work.

Longer pieces on the jobs the tools help with — choosing brand colour, getting artwork through a printer, and sizing images for social.

All guides

Why these exist

The tools on Quezlo each do one job and explain that job on their own page. These guides are the other half: the decisions around the job, which no calculator can make for you. Whether a brand colour will survive being printed, how much bleed a leaflet needs, why an image looks soft after upload — these are the questions that come up in real projects, and the answers are the kind you normally learn by getting it wrong once.

They are written from working practice rather than assembled from other articles, which means they are opinionated in places and admit uncertainty in others. Where a guide touches on something a tool here can do, it links to it — but the guide stands on its own, and none of them exist to sell you anything.