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A few weeks ago we added our new Pro column headers feature and the reaction has been great! Many of you have clearly taken to them like ducks to water. 

So we thought we’d show you some more examples of how the column headers are being used. Perhaps these will give you ideas for your next agendio.

Rachel made a weekly retro page and used the column headers to create categories for her page.

Earlene made an annual summary two-page layout. 

And James snuck in a personal goals top-4 list to the weekly and matched it visually with the date pagelets – Very efficient and looks great!

We’re very impressed by what you all are doing with the new Pro and with our new column headers. There are other excellent examples of headers, but we don’t want this post to be too long, so we’ll stop at three. We hope you found these pages inspiring and we look forward to showing you more examples of what’s happening at agendio.com. 

With the introduction of Agendio Pro, we have added many new options for you to use in designing your pages. It occurs to us that many of you may feel a little overwhelmed – Would you like us to share with you some design ideas to make the most of your options?

Today I’ll share with you a few pointers for selecting fonts. Pro allows you to mix two fonts on the same page, one for page headers and the other for the body text. There are better and worse ways to mix them.

First, let’s review the basic kinds of fonts:

Serif fonts:

‘Serif’ refers to the small details attached to each letter. These details, combined with the varied width of the letter strokes create a very legible font. Our “Classic”, “Stylish”, “Alternative” and “Playful” fonts fit in this category.

Sans Serif fonts:

Sans Serif means exactly that: without serifs. Sans serif fonts provide a more modern, clean look. Our “Smooth” and “Lean” fonts are good examples of sans serif. 

Script fonts:

Script font styles look like handwriting and have a more personal feel, as you can see from our Script category.

What rules should you follow?

When all is said and done, there are two main rules.

1. Go for contrast – Pair fonts from different categories to differentiate the header text from the body text. That’s why header fonts are usually more elaborate, heavier and fancier and the body text font is usually lighter. 
2. Select a simpler or sans serif font for your body text: Fancy lettering looks great at the top of a page or the front of a book, but it can be hard on the eyes to read pages of text printed in a very elaborate font.

Combine the two, and you get 

That being said, you can choose similar or identical fonts for your header and body if you like the look. It isn’t wrong to do that – It’s just a  little less interesting for the eye and won’t do as good a job of separating headers from body text.  

Last week we shared details about our colors. This week we want to share details about shading and highlights:

SHADING

You can add pale shading to most of the pagelets in your agendio. You can do this to draw attention to them or simply to add color to your pages.

You can also choose to shade just your weekends, so as to separate them visually when you look over your week or month.

HIGHLIGHTS

You can also highlight your events and activities in one of six highlight colors to make them more visible and categorize them. Highlight activities and events such as birthdays, paydays, garbage day, practice, or any other event or activity you don’t want to miss. Do you forget to pay credit card or utility bills? Did you forget your last anniversary? Highlights might help.

Choose from six highlight colors – Yellow, blue, green, pink, orange and violet.