Take care with how your styles look, to ensure that they convey the structure of your document accurately and look good on the page:

• Heading styles. Make sure the hierarchy of the headings is clear (eg a level 1 heading should be bigger than a level 2 heading, or made bold or a different colour). Make sure you consider the appropriate spacing before and after headings, as well as the font (see Heading basics).
• Normal style. Make sure it is appropriate for the whole document (eg choose a font that is plain type rather than cursive).
• Lists. If you are setting up styles for bullet lists and lead-in sentences, ensure appropriate spacing between items
  • The lead-in sentence and the list, as well as all the items in the list, should be closely spaced because they are read as a single sentence.
  • The last item in the list and the following paragraph should have more space between them than between the list items, to show the separation of the list from the next paragraph.