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PostersDesign and Composition
Essential pieces
Composition and layout Text Graphs and charts Photographs
Type/font style
Color
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1 2 3 4 5Showing A Cyclical Process
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Type
Your choice of type, and the way you use it, plays a major role in the success of your presentation.
Your choice of type, and the way you use it, plays a major role in the success of your presentation.
Your choice of type, and the way you use it, plays a major role in the success of your presentation.
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Type
Avoid clichés: typeface establishes tone of poster
Weight contrast: light, medium, bold Capitalization:
MAY BE DIFFICULT TO READ
Contrast:
Maximize foreground t o
background contrast
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Develop a Type Hierarchy
Title to be largest/boldest
Text to be simple, easy to read
Labels for table, charts and photosto be smallest
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Chart 4: Comparison of Seasonal Growth Patterns in Rubus
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Color
Hue: another name for color
Chroma: the brightness or dullness of a color
Value: the lightness or darkness of a color
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Primary colors
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Secondary Colors
Two primary colors mixed together
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Color
Tint: color + white Tone: color + gray Shade: color + black
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Warm Colors
Exciting, advancing
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Cool Colors
Calming, receding
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Complementary Colors
Opposite on the color wheel Highest, striking contrast
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Color
Tint, tone, or shade “it down” Reduce harshness Reduce eye strain
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Color
Mono-chromatic colors: using any shade, tint or tone of one color
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Color schemes
Showing A Cyclical ProcessShowing A Cyclical Process
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Color schemes
Showing A Cyclical ProcessShowing A Cyclical Process
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Color Website addresses:
Interactive color wheel:www.sherwin-williams.com/DIY/interior/colorselect/confidence/dwc4.asp
How the eye works to perceive color and the 3 properties of color:
www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/color/eye
General color information:http://www.busybrushes.com/Classroom/harmonyintro.html