Mobile Design Guidelines

Standard mobile design guidelines. Use Dev Tools for testing, and run a final check on your mobile device to double check.

  • Dev Tools, please check the below resolutions:
    • iPhone 12 Pro
    • iPhone 14 Pro Max

Font Size and Text

  • Body text: 14px default
    • Between 12px and 16px is okay too
  • H1 Heading: 32px default
    • Between 28px and 38px is okay too
  • H2 Heading: 26px default
    • Between 24px and 28px is okay too
  • Be sure that all content is using paragraph tags and not break tags, so that on mobile we don’t have uneven breaks.

Padding and Spacing

  • There should always be a padding of some kind. Its not acceptable to have text hard aligned with the edge of the screen or image, etc.
  • Padding default should be small, somewhere around 5px to 10px.
  • We should not have big empty spaces anywhere. Examples:
    • Lists should be in at least two columns, unless the text in the list is long and fills the screen.
    • Images should span the full screen if possible, or if multile images, add in two rows.
  • Spacing and padding should be very consistent throughout the page, we don’t want a big padding value and then a small padding value.

Colors and Links

  • There should be a strong contrast between the background and text.
  • The hover state of links should also have good contrast.
  • Links should be underlined (rare cases it might sense to remove underline for a specific design).