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Re: Become a Master Designer: Rule Three: Contrast, Contrast, Contrast

🅺🅰🅱🅻🅰🅼 🅼🅾! — Fri, 17 May 2013 04:26:59 -0000

You shouldn't preach to others about contrast, with a site like this.

Re: Become a Master Designer: Rule Three: Contrast, Contrast, Contrast

Mike — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:44:01 -0000

Good piece, however you don't "practice what you preach"! Your text is in pale grey and therefore very poor contrast. The number of persons out there with macular degredation and other eye problems is increasing rapidly and straining to read pale grey text just makes one click off!

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Lara Berch — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:38:29 -0000

where are the other four promised parts? :-))

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Politrad — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:58:00 -0000

Good article. I usually like to use darker text on lighter backgrounds. The best advice is that of merging everything and desaturate to see the balance of contrast. Great!

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Saman Sinaei — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:01:51 -0000

I am at least searching for good articles two or three hours a day. but without any doubt I can say this series 7 rules is best written one I have ever seen. It is not only a good tutorial but also an inspiration for whom want to deliver great tutorials and articles to the web.

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Rick — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:18:49 -0000

Great article. I think it's fine to have gray text on white. It makes black stand out more. Elements like the publishing date may not be that important, so why make it black?

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Mike — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:29:34 -0000

Always a great rule to live by. Thanks for the further information and tips.

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Vijendra Mishra — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:23:59 -0000

Nice Post ... nice presentation for contrast ... really we have to take care of contrast values.

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Blue Fire Media — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:42:59 -0000

Excellent advice on contrasting colors and Web design. A design that is not easy on the eyes is much more likely to get a bounce that one that is appealing.

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Matty — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:20:02 -0000

Really like that you added the watermark visuals to visually show the importance of contrast within a design. Most excellent post. Thank you for sharing.

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rahul sahu — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:16:18 -0000

Kuler is the coolest one. I love that you can save out the color theme as a swatch library that you can use in any of the Adobe Suite.

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tripleM — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:09:17 -0000

this tutorial is great help .. thanks for the advice .. keep the good the work up
:D

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jimiyo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:54:37 -0000

ha... so this is the one eh? people are eager to throw stones.

did you know when you grayscale a color image in photoshop, it isnt necessarily a good basis for showing how we view the contrast when it is in color?

the reason for it is, if you take a warm color like red, warm colors have a tendency to pop out. yellows/oranges/reds etc.

cool colors recede.

but when you grayscale that data, unless you compensate, you lose that intensity. i dont know why... thats why theres plugins you can specifically buy to convert color photos into grayscale/b&W.

all they really do is boost the white in the warm colors so when the image is grayscaled, it does not lose its intensity.

i learned this from making base white for tshirt printing screens.

lighter colors need almost a thick white underbase so they dont get dulled once they hit a dark shirt. and while making base i noticed this... i suppose phenomenon.

try it out. its neat.

take a screen of blocks of bright red/yellow/orange and take some light blues/greens etc. once you grayscale, they will all muddy down to a midtone grey.

BLABLHABLAH. i thought about making a tut on the concept, but i think in general, its not tremendously useful.

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Matt — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:40:06 -0000

The contrast can be improved as well in photoshop with : Image>Adjustments>curve

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Daquan — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:40:30 -0000

Wow, lovely tutorials. I read all three and it's great...

Nice, simple read but concise and informative simultaneously.

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Muchora — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:01:12 -0000

Gray on of white. Come on guys. The contrast here is not so bad. Nice article, nice exanples, lots of bad students

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design nottingham — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:39:53 -0000

Badly designed websites with garish colours and fonts are a pet hate. Have to disagree with the above poster tho - dark grey font on white background very easy to read.

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website design — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:02:31 -0000

Ironic article - it happens to be written in a light grey font on an off-white background, not much contrast there?

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phalkunz — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:04:09 -0000

Can't wait to read the next article of this series.

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Erika — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:19:30 -0000

I was merely interested in backtracking through the master designer series, and wanted to know the name of the font in the "Cleveland Rocks" picture.. but I must say that I'm surprised by the comments on this site and how rude they are.

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Jesse Burcsik — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:44:44 -0000

Yay... hehe, it was funny to google myself and find this comment string again. We showed them good.

Great article!

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Bill — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:12:32 -0000

Zeus,

Thank you for taking the time to track the font color of our proof lab. :)

I like knowing that Go Media is so important in people's lives that they're keeping track of these little details.

Good job!

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Zeus — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:56:49 -0000

Hey, did anyone notice that they finally changed the contrast on the site?

Now the text is #51514B instead of #909085.

I guess Bill no longer stands by his contrast. :)

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Webdesignhub — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:41:14 -0000

Great post Bill,
You have a very cool blog hereÃ¢â‚¬Â¦ I loved the content very much and It inspires the readers who has that great desire to lead a better and happier life.