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choosing and using type
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HOW COLOR AFFECTS TYPE
What Happens Now? Type in Color
Chromatic color can greatly enhance the
textural qualities of type—its boldness,
lightness, openness, density, and appar-
ent location in three-dimensional space
(called “typographic color”)—reinforcing
these qualities as they already exist in black
and white by adding the optical effect of a
true color. As we have seen, different hues
appear at different locations in space; cool
colors appear to recede, while warmer
colors appear ...