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Color for Designers: Ninety-five things you need to know when choosing and using colors for layouts and illustrations
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Color for Designers: Ninety-five things you need to know when choosing and using colors for layouts and illustrations

by Jim Krause
September 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
4h 22m
English
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Chapter 6. Interacting with the Eye

41 Guiding with Hues

Value (as mentioned on page 34) plays critical roles in calling attention to key components of well-designed layouts. Good value structure also helps guide viewers’ eyes through a layout’s content once they’ve decided to look deeper into its full meaning and message.

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It should go without saying that the colors in a layout or an illustration should also contribute to a layout’s presentation of message and style.

Allowing hues to assist in this regard is not necessarily difficult as long the designer is working with the layout’s goals in mind and is paying attention to the contribution each ...

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