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Menu Design Basics

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Typography and Font Choice

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Purpose: To ensure legibility and create the appropriate mood or theme. Tips: Choose fonts that reflect your restaurant's brand, avoid overly decorative fonts that can be hard to read, ensure font size is large enough for all customers.

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Color Scheme

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Purpose: To invoke emotions and affect appetite. Tips: Use colors that match your restaurant's theme, understand color psychology (e.g., red stimulates appetite), ensure good contrast for readability.

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Layout and Space Allocation

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Purpose: To guide customers through the menu items in a logical order. Tips: Group similar items together, use white space to avoid clutter, highlight special dishes or sections.

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Imagery and Visual Elements

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Purpose: To visually communicate the style and quality of the dishes. Tips: Use high-quality photos sparingly, consider using illustrations, ensure that the imagery aligns with the food's actual appearance.

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Descriptions of Menu Items

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Purpose: To inform customers about the dish and its ingredients. Tips: Be clear and concise, use appealing adjectives, mention any unique ingredients or cooking methods.

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Price Presentation

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Purpose: To display the cost of items without deterring customers. Tips: Avoid using currency symbols, align prices in a column to discourage price comparison, consider using pricing psychology (e.g., 9.99insteadof9.99 instead of 10).

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Material and Texture

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Purpose: To add a tactile dimension and durability to the menu. Tips: Choose materials that can be easily cleaned, consider the weight and feel of the menu, align material choice with the restaurant's ambiance.

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Seasonality and Trends

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Purpose: To keep the menu relevant and interesting. Tips: Update the menu periodically to reflect seasonal ingredients, incorporate current food trends, offer limited-time dishes to create a sense of urgency.

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Legibility Under Restaurant Lighting

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Purpose: To ensure the menu can be read in the restaurant's lighting conditions. Tips: Use a font size and type that's easy to read in dim lighting, choose a matte finish to reduce glare, use appropriate contrast between text and background.

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Menu Categories and Grouping

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Purpose: To organize items in a way that makes it easy for customers to make a choice. Tips: Create clear categories, limit the number of items in each category to avoid overwhelming customers, order categories logically from appetizers to desserts.

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