Ancient History–Pre-1600 AD
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Instructional – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics
Instructional •\ Recipes •\ Product assembly •\ Complex technologies made easier to understand (cars, electronics, and robotics) This is not necessarily an exhaustive list; it merely just shows there is a wide range of topics that you can draw from if you want to start creating an infographic. However, there may be some topics that are easier than others to explain as infographics. Nevertheless, being creative in your display and researching the topic is important as we will look at in the next section, later chapters, and Volumes 2 and 3. Other topics may not be that interesting for the general public to pay attention to and so may not…
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Additional Tips on Color and Fonts – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics
Here are some additional things you should keep in mind about fonts before working with a client. Make sure to keep the text letter characters legible. A font should not be too small so you can read it or too large so that it overwhelms the infographic or logo. Also, the more styles, a font comes in the better, but you should at least have access to the main four: regular, bold, italic, and bold italic. However, keep in mind that handwritten script fonts or special fonts may have readability issues on the screen or in print. Refer to Figure 2-64. Figure 2-64. Graphics of different font families with styles…
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Accessibility Tools for Contrast and Color Blindness When Dealing with Text and Graphics – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics-3
Before you save the library on the right side, you will be alerted if the theme is or is not color blind safe. You will see the three main types of color blindness, using the color blind simulator: deuteranopia, protanopia, and tritanopia. Though color blindness only affects roughly 8% of the population, more men than women, it’s good to make sure your design is easily readable and accessible to all. So continue to move the sliders around to adjust if you want your colors to be color blind safe if this is critical to your work. Note Vision is a key factor in how color is perceived by our brain.…
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Accessibility Tools for Contrast and Color Blindness When Dealing with Text and Graphics – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics-1
One final thing to keep in mind when working with the color wheel is contrast. Are you using colors that have enough contrast? Are the colors distinct enough that they don’t blend into one another and disappear? You will know the difference because high contrast colors give a good range, while low contrast colors start to become difficult to tell the difference between. Here I am using six different colors in this fish, but if all the colors become too dark, each color becomes difficult to see. Refer to Figure 2-47. Figure 2-47. Fish images with high and low contrast swatches A good range of high contrast text is more…
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Color Science 2D and 3D visualization – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics-2
Note Ten in this case represents 100% or purest brightness moving down in increments of 1. One is 10%. Refer to Figure 2-42. Figure 2-42. Munsell color diagram imagining color to be displayed as a perfect cylinder with many layers Before the age of computers, this system was developed by Professor Albert H. Munsell. Starting in 1905, he continued to work on this until his death in 1918 and was used later in the 1930s by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as the official color system for soil research. However, soil or dirt is one of the basic forms of pigments used in ink, and so because Munsell’s…
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Base Color Settings and Eyedropper – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics
You can change the base color that you base all your other colors on by clicking one of the other five colors in the bar colors below the color wheel to add a white or black triangle. Refer back to Figure 2-17. This will attach a white triangle to that swatch in the color wheel, and then you can move the color slider around on the wheel to make the other colors complement it. Below the color wheel, you will see the white and black dots on the left; these will allow you to select and set all colors one at a time when selected, which you will see the…
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Color Harmony Definitions – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics-3
•\ Square: When dealing with four or more colors, there are a few harmony variety themes that can be created. The most common is the tetradic or double complement (square). Each color is set at 90 degrees to the other and then complements the opposite color. Note that another variation on this tetradic theme is the double split complementary, which is more rectangle-like than you looked at earlier, but this time, using the custom from the color harmony list with one of the swatches together with the other, you could create the custom setting. Swatches for the square can be moved inward and outward and spun around while keeping the…
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Color Harmony Definitions – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics-1
•\ Analogous (analog): A color combination where two, three, four, or even five hues can be touching or adjacent. First, a base or active color is chosen, and then the other colors move based on the placement of that color. You can then move to other colors together on the wheel as you cycle around; this is true for all color themes and harmonies. A variation on analogous is known as split analogous, which you could create if you drag on one of the outer colors on the wheel using the custom option. This makes the hues one step apart. A good tip to remember about analogous is this combination…
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The Science of Color – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics-3
RGB can capture more colors than the CMYK model, but the area doesn’t equally overlap in all cases, and that is why your monitor (additive) cannot accurately tell you how a printed (subtractive) item will look. These ranges can vary from media to media depending on what is trying to reproduce the color range. Over time, some designers have tried to find ways to compensate. For example, to capture yellow better on a TV screen, they have attempted to add a yellow light to the RGB known as Quattron (QuadPixel technology) to get a higher range of colors in the yellow. However, this technology only apparently lets through more red…
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Design Considerations – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics
When you begin to design your artwork, you need to consider that each logo and infographic that you create will be unique and different, and if you are creating them for a client whom you have not worked with before, it can be a challenge to know where to begin. You may also be used to creating logos in the past, and now you are creating an infographic for the first time. This chapter will look at some of the main considerations and steps that you can take, either independently or with your team, as you create an infographic for a client. Note This chapter is a discussion on the…