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Looking for feedback on new Thread Design

I'm making this thread design for the sole purpose of giving away in the Graphic Resources section, so before then I figured I'd get HF's opinions on it. I haven't made a thread design in a few months so I'm quite rusty.

Just let me know what you think. Colors can be altered with a click of a button pretty much and font can be altered quite easily too. Feel free to link me some dafonts you prefer, I'd love to add them to my collection. Ignore the actual prices and features, they're placeholders that I made up on the spot.

I'm tempted to make the checkmarks smaller and place them in a thin box with white outlines and black inners. Let me know what you think on it.


Thread Design v1.0 w/ Corner Piece (Click to View)




Thread Design v1.0 w/out Corner Piece (Click to View)
I dont really like these "Bebas"-like fonts to be honest, they're so overused and not even that great. But on the fly I don't really know which font would fit better...

You should work on your aligning and spacing, as there are gaps that don't look very nice.
For example: In the version with the corner piece, the payment methods just simply look misplaced and the columns of the features could be closer together.

Otherwise it's quite clean and simple. Are the flat shadow icons selfmade?
I don't want to be harsh, but I think constructive criticism is more helpful than "10/10 keep it up"
(Feb 28, 2017 04:16 PM)The-Hive Wrote:  I dont really like these "Bebas"-like fonts to be honest, they're so overused and not even that great. But on the fly I don't really know which font would fit better...

You should work on your aligning and spacing, as there are gaps that don't look very nice.
For example: In the version with the corner piece, the payment methods just simply look misplaced and the columns of the features could be closer together.

Otherwise it's quite clean and simple. Are the flat shadow icons selfmade?
I don't want to be harsh, but I think constructive criticism is more helpful than "10/10 keep it up"


I agree that constructive criticism is definitely much more valuable than a simple rating.

About the corner piece, you're absolutely right. I wanted something to make it appear three-dimensional but it took from the payments part. I was forced to re-arrange it.

About the aligning... I don't actually agree with that. I went in and aligned each little icon and text to be the same amount of pixels away from each other. The main issue as you said would be the spacing.


I'm not sure what I can do about the bebas font since there's no real good thick alternatives that work as well as bebas does. Again I'm open to any and all suggestions. I want to improve myself. Thanks again for the critique.

The icons aren't homemade sadly but that's simply because I lack the time and dedication to do it, I do own an art tablet but tend not to use it.

I'm using Photoshop CC 2017.
Their pretty dope them buddy, great work!
(Feb 28, 2017 04:23 PM)Nevieth Wrote:  I agree that constructive criticism is definitely much more valuable than a simple rating.

About the corner piece, you're absolutely right. I wanted something to make it appear three-dimensional but it took from the payments part. I was forced to re-arrange it.

About the aligning... I don't actually agree with that. I went in and aligned each little icon and text to be the same amount of pixels away from each other. The main issue as you said would be the spacing.


I'm not sure what I can do about the bebas font since there's no real good thick alternatives that work as well as bebas does. Again I'm open to any and all suggestions. I want to improve myself. Thanks again for the critique.

The icons aren't homemade sadly but that's simply because I lack the time and dedication to do it, I do own an art tablet but tend not to use it.

I'm using Photoshop CC 2017.
With aligning, I meant the positioning of the payment methods :)
I'll take a look at my fonts when I'm to give you proper feedback and suggestions on what to possibly use.
I personally like to create icons by myself, because that way they fit the overall style of the design.
If you want to get better, I'd suggest trying to do more complex work to practice.
Imagine what kind of thread design you'd like to have to advertise your product and then work on the design and every detail until you're satisfied.
Good design consists of the multitude of little and well-made details!
(Feb 28, 2017 04:16 PM)The-Hive Wrote:  I dont really like these "Bebas"-like fonts to be honest, they're so overused and not even that great. But on the fly I don't really know which font would fit better...

You should work on your aligning and spacing, as there are gaps that don't look very nice.
For example: In the version with the corner piece, the payment methods just simply look misplaced and the columns of the features could be closer together.

Otherwise it's quite clean and simple. Are the flat shadow icons selfmade?
I don't want to be harsh, but I think constructive criticism is more helpful than "10/10 keep it up"

Lol bebas is one of the best font
(Feb 28, 2017 04:42 PM)Troep Wrote:  Lol bebas is one of the best font
I mostly do print related GFX and to be honest: Bebas being printed looks like shit, just my opinion.
Maybe I'm prejudiced because of these printing experiences.
(Feb 28, 2017 04:39 PM)The-Hive Wrote:  With aligning, I meant the positioning of the payment methods :)
I'll take a look at my fonts when I'm to give you proper feedback and suggestions on what to possibly use.
I personally like to create icons by myself, because that way they fit the overall style of the design.
If you want to get better, I'd suggest trying to do more complex work to practice.
Imagine what kind of thread design you'd like to have to advertise your product and then work on the design and every detail until you're satisfied.
Good design consists of the multitude of little and well-made details!

Ahh right the Payments part is the one part I didn't align perfectly, because of the corner piece that I have togglable.

Let me know what fonts you recommend. :)
Oh and I tend to take advantage of online resources instead of making new content unless of course I'm being paid for my work. This thread design is going to be a free publicly available resource in a bit, so I felt no reason to hand design anything like icons.

It certainly hurts when designing something like this when I have no actual theme. Again this is a generic design I made with the intention of handing it away to the public, so I certainly can't theme it towards one particular niche if I want a larger user base to find it helpful. Plus I had no real product to sell, and the blank parts will be for the user to fill out for themselves.



(Feb 28, 2017 04:46 PM)The-Hive Wrote:  I mostly do print related GFX and to be honest: Bebas being printed looks like shit, just my opinion.
Maybe I'm prejudiced because of these printing experiences.


Fair enough. On HF and for digital media content Bebas is probably the best around.
(Feb 28, 2017 04:46 PM)The-Hive Wrote:  I mostly do print related GFX and to be honest: Bebas being printed looks like shit, just my opinion.
Maybe I'm prejudiced because of these printing experiences.

Do know more clean fonts?
I like it, more so without the corner piece but I think it looks clean either way.
The Header looks lovely in my opinion. Nice
(Mar 1, 2017 12:24 AM)Twin Future Wrote:  The Header looks lovely in my opinion. Nice

Thanks, it's two different images and a black transparent overlay. The hot air balloon is from a picture where its floating over water, so I faded it a bit and now it looks like the city itself is overlaying the ocean.


It gives off a peaceful feel to it.
The check marks are huge. I'd reduce the size significantly. Other than that it looks pretty nice.
(Mar 1, 2017 08:45 PM)Charger Wrote:  The check marks are huge. I'd reduce the size significantly. Other than that it looks pretty nice.

Ah yes, I figured that was the case. I'll definitely make the needed adjustments on my next thread design.

As said in OP this design was made to give away, and thus the download thread is up.
https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=5564124


Just in case ANYONE wants to use it.
I feel like it's too many different fonts, try to just stay to one clean font.
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