Design Considerations
- Adobe Certifications, Color Harmony Definitions, Design Considerations, Exams of Adobe, The Science of Color
Working with Your Team and Your Client in Design to Create a Mock-Up Sketch and Mood Board and Keep the Theme – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics-1
As a designer, you certainly want to keep your designs as original as possible and not copy others’ work or at the very least reference them. Nevertheless, it is a good idea to review what others have done on similar topics so that you know how and where you can improve your own artwork. In your case, you want to make sure that you or your team can come up with a successful infographic. One member of the team may have done the research and you may be the designer, you would then need to consult with your client to ensure that you understand the process they want you to…
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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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Adding Your Color Theme – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics
Adding Your Color Theme Returning back to the Adobe Color app, on the right side is the ability to add your color theme to a select library, create a new library, and name the theme. You can also add tag and publicly publish your color theme to Adobe Color as well as check for accessibility which we will look at in a moment. When done, you can save the theme, and it is added to your library, and you can access it in applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign as well as other Adobe applications that have access to the Libraries panel which we will look at in Volume…
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Color Science 2D and 3D visualization – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics-1
From what you have seen so far about the color wheel, it may seem like color is pretty two dimensional, but this is not so. Just like in nature which has three dimensions, so is the range of color. Some colors, while we can see them in the visual world, just can’t be reproduced on the screen or in print. They go out of gamut or out of range. To imagine three-dimensional color, we need to know what the three dimensions are. Earlier in the chapter, we looked briefly at a compression chart CIE chromaticity diagram for comparison. Refer back to Figure 2-6. This figure showed a spread-out color wheel…
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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-2
In the case of the computer screen, the light primary colors are red, green, and blue, and a full combination of all three when added together produces white light. In combinations of two, we get secondary colors, such as combining red and blue, we get magenta; or blue and green, we get cyan; and red and green surprisingly, we get yellow. Depending on the technology used, LED, LCD, or plasma pixel lights, in their respective wavelengths on the screen, are so small that our mind is fooled into believing that we are seeing only one solid color, but we are not. RGB color mode is one of the most common…