hi

I need tips on how to make a menu look good in unity.  Cause my menu sucks

Implement in the background an instance of your game running (it could be in slow-mo, or random moves or something like that).

In the foreground choose whatever font and give it a color that makes it pop.

Put the text wherever it feels like it (relative to the background).

There is a lessson on pause menu from brackeys :) I used that but for 2D

So I use ONE big trick that I find makes my menus look a little better. I overlay two transparent panels of slightly different sizes ;) It creates a neat border effect at almost zero effort and can be tweaked easily. Other than that, it's just deciding how you want your text to look and aligning it. My main menu at this time:

NOTE I am by no means a UX/UI expert lol... I work next to one and she's awesome but it's not my strength for sure :)