Le Lun 13 août 2007 13:22, Máirín Duffy a écrit : > This sounds like a bit of an urban myth? I've never heard of this and > I've a design degree - I would love to know where you've heard this? In a previous life I helped organise an event. We organised a competition to choose the picture that would appear on brochures, leaflets, ads, etc The design winner was purplish (with a bluish gradient, just like your mokups). The print shop warned us this was not a popular colour and we'd be well advised to ask the designer to change the main tone. We went through anyway. On hindsight this was a mistake - we had many remarks on the colour, and even today I have mixed feelings when I look at the art material I kept as a remembrance (esp compared to the ones produced by the teams that organised the previous and next iterations) Since then I've looked twice whenever I encounter purple artwork. I've found out the print shop was right - it is very rarely used, and when it is it's predominently with a hard contrasting colour (black, silver, white) to tone down the purple impression. The very few cases I've seen it in a big gradient were somehow less than optimal just like our own attempt. Hindsight is a wonderful thing :( -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
