Having a digital planner is a necessity for any busy individual, and they come in a wide range of designs. Aside from practicality, you have freedom to adorn your digital planner with “aesthetic” elements, including girly elements like fonts.
Here’s a simple guide to start creating your cute digital planner (with some font recommendations).
A good digital planner needs to have all the sections that you need to manage your activities. You must also be able to maneuver all sections easily, especially when you need to make some notes quickly.
However, aesthetics is also important for an effective digital planner. Different colors help you distinguish various sections. Using cute girly fonts (or your other favorites) make the planner content more personalized and memorable. They can encourage you to check and use the planner often.
Before designing a digital planner, make sure you know what to put in it. Make a checklist to get a planner that suits your (or your client’) needs. Here are some important things to plan before designing a planner.
A digital planner must be personalized. Therefore, you need to make a list of your activities to create sections. For example, you can list calendar spread to write your schedules, habit tracking, exercise goals, and such.
Before you make a digital planner, create rough sketches of the planner design that you want. Think about the most comfortable layout you want for each page.
Personalized style makes your digital planner more interesting and encourages positive planning habits! Think of the color scheme, illustration, and the modern fonts you want to use.
Using “the sticky notes method” is a good way to arrange your planner before actually creating it.
Put each section that you have planned on individual sticky notes. Afterward, try arranging the sticky notes based on your needs, the possible problems or activities you will encounter, and the best way you would use the planner for daily activities.
With sticky notes, you can see how your layout arrangement will actually work. The same thing applies to the digital planner you make for a client. Consider their needs and activities when creating the arrangement to see planner design that works.
There is no identical method in designing a digital planner, whether for yourself or a client. However, there are design principles that you must follow to make the digital planner function properly.
Here is how to design a good digital planner:
An ideal document size for a digital planner is the A4 design. It is equal to 3,508 x 2,480 pixels or 210 x 297 mm. This size is easier to write on or print if necessary.
Hyperlinks are necessary to help users visit other sections easily. Make the process easier by creating special tabs on top to other sections.
Make sure you create duplicate pages based on the planner’s function. For example, if it is a yearly planner, you must create 365 duplicate pages. For a monthly planner, you need 12 pages. Make sure to add extra duplicate pages for additional purposes, such as blank ones for random notes.
Regardless of the design options, make sure you avoid clutter. If you want to add cute images, don’t let them clutter the pages that people are supposed to write on.
The same thing applies to fonts. You can use something cute like girly fonts for header and page titles, for example. However, make sure to balance it by using more standard fonts for smaller texts. Limit the fonts to two or three to avoid confusing clutter.
Ready to create your dream digital planner?
Here are some stylish girly fonts to make attractive planners without looking childish.
Angella gives you a feminine, elegant, yet slightly contemporary look through a script font. Inspired by a classic cursive handwriting, Angella has a slight quirk in its loops, which have various sizes. They adorn the texts and give your design a distinctive look: classically feminine but with contemporary edge.
Angella comes with several variations of swashes and accented characters for different languages. Perfect for adorning the header of your digital planner section.
Berllina is a girly font similar to Angella, but with a more playful angle. The handwriting font has a more “freestyle” look, a perfect addition for a youthful design. Berllina also comes with variations of swashes and glyphs with heart-shaped ornaments.
Berllina is perfect for adding a girlish quirk into your planner. Use it as a header font or to distinguish between sections.
Hanitha is the ultimate girly font; a beautiful and playful script typeface with both uppercase and lowercase options. It has an almost freestyle-like design, with exaggerated stems and double swashes. Perfect for adding a beautiful, quirky touch to your planner.
Emitron Elegant is a serif font with a more sophisticated feminine touch. While the standard form is more like a classic serif, the glyph variations offer a quirky girly look. They have ribbon-like swashes and stems that add unique characters into your text.
You can use the two variations of Emitron Elegant as header and section titles of your planner. Perfect if you prefer a more adult-friendly design.
Another great girly font for those with elegant taste, Brighta Norwich has thin strokes and subtle ornamental variations that show restraint. The result is a sleek, beautiful typeface with modern elegance. It also has a decent amount of readability, and you can use it as header, page title, or divider between sections.
Use Brighta Norwich with sleek sans serif font if you want a more mature, balanced, adult-friendly planner without losing the girly touch.
Designing a digital planner gives you freedom to create a personalized style, including feminine, girly ones. Using girly fonts for various sections of your planner will make it more attractive and compelling to use!