colour

Colour coordination

by Howard Oakley on 18 May 2010 in Help

Your Mac’s built-in tools aren’t always the best way to test colour combinations. Sometimes, it’s better to rely on your instinct instead. It was probably Leonardo da Vinci who first proposed that red and green complemented one another, although French painter Roger de Piles later castigated such combinations as ugly. That dogma delayed the widespread [...]

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Picking your way through the colour settings minefield

by Keith Martin on 18 May 2010 in Design for Print

Tackling colour settings, profiles and calibration can leave even experienced designers quaking with fear, so here’s what you need to know… I find that RGB vs CMYK, colour profiles and picking the right settings is a constant source of confusion for designers. This isn’t surprising; it’s a murky subject and there’s a lot of misinformation [...]

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Time to take colour control of your prints

by Keith Martin on 18 May 2010 in Design for Print

Forget trying to match colours by eye on screen. By using a tint chart or swatch, you can ensure that the finished article is exactly the right colour. Sometimes, when you need to get something done, the simplest approach is to cut to the chase. Colour matching is a case in point. This stuff is [...]

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