3 Easy Fixes to Make Your Canva Designs Look More Pro

You don’t need to be a full-time designer to make your visuals look polished.
But you do need more than a cute template and a Hail Mary font swap at midnight.

Whether you’re sending client guides, updating your homepage, or just trying to keep your IG grid from looking like a Canva crime scene—these three fixes will instantly upgrade your design (without overhauling your whole brand).

Let’s clean it up:

1. Lock in a font pairing (and actually stick to it)

Design disaster #1: font soup—aka seven styles in one doc, each louder than the last, like a group chat with no chill.

Instead, pick one headline font and one body font. That’s it. Repeat them everywhere.

Pro tip: Canva has curated font pairings—browse those if you’re unsure where to start. Once you choose, save it as a brand style so you’re not guessing every time.

→ Bonus points if your fonts don’t change every time Mercury’s in retrograde.

2. Pick 3–5 brand colors and use them on everything

You don’t need a rainbow. You need recognition.
A clean, consistent palette tells your audience “This is me.”
A messy color story says “I made this at midnight with no plan.”

I mean… if neon green and dusty mauve and hot pink are all part of your vision… go off.
But if not? Let’s rein it in.

→ Pro tip: Save your colors in Canva’s brand kit so they’re always one click away (and so you stop grabbing random hex codes you saw on Pinterest).

3. Give your designs room to breathe

Most beginner mistakes come from doing too much. More icons. More text. More boxes. More… chaos.

But great design isn’t about adding—it’s about editing.

Use white space like it’s a flex (because it is).
Let headlines breathe. Let margins exist.

Pro tip: Zoom out and ask, “Can I read this at a glance?” If not, delete something. Then delete one more thing for good measure.

→ White space doesn’t mean boring. It means intentional.
(Also: your clients will thank you when they can actually read your damn PDF.)

Reminder: Canva isn’t the problem.

Canva is powerful. But without a system behind it, even the best template can turn on you faster than your homepage font load time.

If you’ve been tweaking the same designs for weeks and still feel “meh”—it’s probably not a you problem. It’s a framework problem.

That’s exactly what we fix in a Design Day:
One focused day to take your proposal, guide, or homepage from messy to magnetic—so you can stop babysitting your brand and start sending it with confidence.

→ Want your own Design Day? Book here.