Color can be tricky in a book of family pictures. Too many color pictures on a page can make for a wearying experience for the reader. Norma Strube Rue reined it in quite nicely in The Family Strube. She used two techniques to make color work successfully in her book. They are today's Ideas:
- When using more than one color photo on a page or a spread, choose photos whose colors are similar and harmonious together. Clashing colors don't look any better together on a page than they do in the mirror when you dress yourself badly. There's not much chance that an orange polka-dotted shirt will look good with your red plaid pants, is there? Well, they don't want to spend eternity on the same page with each other either, even in separate pictures!
- Norma carried a color theme through her book even on pages which had only neutral photos. She did so by using a two-tone scheme for her text, keeping the main body of text black, but using a dark reddish color for titles, captions and such. This creates a strong unity throughout her book no matter what kind of pictures are on any particular page-spread. And it looks terrific!
4 comments:
What a beautiful family history book! I love your Friday series on these books, they are all giving me loads of ideas. I thought I was the only one reading all the genealogy books in the Blurb bookstore!
Heather, they give me so many ideas too. I had to collect 'em someplace! At the moment I have ten (or eleven, depending on how you count) projects open in BookSmart. I can't keep up with all the great ideas!
Another inspirational example of what can be done, thank you T.K. I like this one, but I think I'll have to spend some time working out exactly what aspects of it appeal to me. Too many projects on the go ...
So many books, so little time!
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