- 1901 AD–2000 AD, Adding Your Color Theme, Adobe Certifications, 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-2
Just to clarify on these design terms •\ Mock-Up Sketch or Wireframe: In this example is what you would draw, usually with a pen or pencil on paper, for the client as you listen to what their concerns and ideas are about the graphic. However, you may want to use your digital tablet or stylus as well, and this could be an easier and faster way to get your design digitized so that you are ready to start designing without the extra step of scanning. However, if you are more comfortable with paper and pencil, then in Chapter 3, I will present how to scan your mock-up using Photoshop and…
- 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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How Research Plays an Important Role in Your Infographic Creation – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics
As mentioned in Chapter 1, both the logo and infographic require you to research your topic thoroughly to know what the client wants for the final design. In the case of the logo, it may be a better understanding of the history of the company or client or what processes are involved or what is manufactured in the company or what the company is associated with to give you an idea of what the final logo will be. However, with an infographic, more research is required as you may be showing a process at the company or maybe something beyond what the company does. If you do not understand the…
- Adding Your Color Theme, Adobe Certifications, Ancient History–Pre-1600 AD, Design Considerations, The Science of Color
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.…
- 1901 AD–2000 AD, Adding Your Color Theme, Adobe Certifications, Color Harmony Definitions, The Science of Color
Accessibility Tools for Contrast and Color Blindness When Dealing with Text and Graphics – Preparation for Creating a Logo and Infographics-2
The Import Colors button allows you to upload an image to check the color contrast between text and background colors and then import the colors. Refer to Figure 2-51. Figure 2-51. Adobe Color contrast checker allows you to import color or a file so that you can check the contrast in it You can then adjust the colors in the #HEX color or RGB color mode with the sliders to adjust the contrast ratio. You can then reverse the colors using the two-way arrows and continue to adjust the brightness/contrast setting slider, which will then show a pass or fail, and this can be applied to basic graphic components as…
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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…
- 1901 AD–2000 AD, Adding Your Color Theme, Adobe Certifications, Color Harmony Definitions, Design Considerations
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-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…
