Suitable Projects for Templating

Templates are suitable for many projects, but they are definitely not always necessary. Essentially, any document that has some design consistency and that you create often enough is worth constructing a template for.

On the other hand, documents with a unique design that you don’t plan on using again are likely not suitable for templating. Why waste time and effort on constructing a template for a design that you’ll only use once? Documents that fall into this category are posters, flyers, advertisements, and so on. However, in some circumstances you might want to create a series of posters or flyers that call for a uniform identity. In that case, building a simple and flexible template may be just the ticket ...

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