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Font and Text
Fonts and Text
When colorizing small text beware of the printing process. If you are going to print a two-color job then putting the text in a color is not a problem. Be aware of colored text on a four-color job because what happens is that all printing presses have a little bit of variance in the consistency of the position of the different color plates. The cyan, magenta, yellow and black portions of the text characters don't line up exactly. So the result is little colored halos around the characters. It's ok to use colored text on large, headline type, or smaller sizes down to about 12 point size, but much smaller than that will be too noticeable and you won't like it. The same thing holds true for white (knock-out) text on a dark or colored background. You can do it but don't use point sizes smaller than about 12 point. Otherwise the words may be hard to read and it will look unprofessional. Can I put text over an image?
Be careful about using photographs for backgrounds. If you put text (any color) on top it can be very hard to read. So the secret is to lighten the photograph a lot--more than you may think is necessary. Use a photo editing program and screen the image back between 15% and 20%.
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