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Two-tone, hands-on

12 April 2011

In my last post, I demonstrated how effective and attractive can a two spot colour print be. Today, I want to share some behind-the-scenes of achieving similar result in a quick and easy tutorial. Choosing colours Let’s say our project is a tropical destination postcard and it will contain a photograph of a nice sandy [...]

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In a good tone

8 February 2011

Once in a while there is a need to print using just Pantone colours. This can happen when a specific corporate colour is required to be used or when CMYK doesn’t offer that vivid shade we’re after. Also, the reason may be that we just need one or two colours to print our brochure or [...]

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Putting Pantone in the mix

7 December 2010

As a designer — and possibly as Fred Bloggs too — it is likely that you’ve heard about Pantone. To make things clear, however, let’s remind ourselves what Pantone means in print business. In simple terms it means designers and clients can choose from over a thousand precisely formulated colours, each of them having its [...]

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Choose Your Colour (Part 1): CMYK vs. Spot Colour Printing

11 August 2009

When it comes to designing, it is all about concept, layout, font and typography. The other very important thing is colour. There are two basic usage of colour when designing print artwork. 1. CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) CMYK is a 4 colour process. Four colours (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) are mixed and [...]

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