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Color for book designBelow you'll find links to all the information about color that’s available on our website, book, videos, and blog.

We gained a lot of experience from creating Book Design Made Simple. You can learn from our successes and avoid our pitfalls! We’ve written blog posts about devising a color palette and mixing two colors in InDesign, as well as created video tutorials about using color in InDesign.

 

Excerpts from Book Design Made Simple

  • Color gradients: tips for best results
  • InDesign layers: how to use them with text and shapes

 

Blog posts

Below are all the blog posts tagged with Color, starting with the most recent post.

The evolution of a book cover

February 13, 2017 By Glenna Collett 6 Comments

book cover wtih question markDoes the prospect of designing a book cover make you feel anxious? Jittery? Terrified? Do you start to contemplate cleaning out your basement instead? Don’t worry! You’re not the only one. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Book Cover Design Tagged With: color, images

Making tables look good in InDesign

September 14, 2016 By Fiona Raven Leave a Comment

Add color to a table in InDesign.Want to improve your tables in InDesign? So far you’ve imported your table or spreadsheet from Word or Excel into InDesign, and made a few adjustments to the text and columns following our previous blog post, Want to import from Excel into InDesign? Your table probably looks okay (i.e., readable), but does it rock your world? Not so much.

There are lots of ways to make tables look good in InDesign. In this blog post, we’ll take you through the steps to create a simple yet attractive greyscale or color table. We’ll start by explaining InDesign’s cell and table styles, as they provide an easy way to make all the tables in your book consistent. [Read more…]

Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: color, tables

Developing an eye for good design

February 8, 2016 By Glenna Collett 4 Comments

eye_openerIn Book Design Made Simple, we have given you samples and instructions that serve as foundations for your own book designs. And if you follow them, you can be certain that you have produced something very good. But are you confident about your work? Do you think it looks good? Do you wonder if anyone else will think it’s good? Do you worry that if you come up with ideas of your own they might be “bad”? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Book Cover Design Tagged With: color, typesetting

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