Design and layout |
| Probably the most important design consideration is that you
need to write for the destination platform. Often the multimedia development is done on a
high specification computer, whereas the destination machines will most often be of much
less power. For example
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The colour wheel |
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Primary | Red, yellow, blue |
| monochromatic | add black (shade), or white (tint) to colours | |
| Contrast | complementary colours (opposite the selected coloured) | |
| Harmonious | Adjacent colours (next to) | |
| Recede | (Cool colours) green, blue, violet | |
| Advance | (warm colours) yellow, orange, red | |
Colour combinations |
| Character/ Symbol |
Background colour | Character/ Symbol |
Background colour |
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| Recommended | Avoid | Recommended | Avoid | |||||
| Black | grey, white, yellow, cyan | blue | White | black, green, magenta, red, blue | yellow, grey | |||
| Yellow | black, magenta, red | green | Cyan | grey, black, blue | white | |||
| Green | grey, white, yellow | cyan, red, blue | Magenta | grey, black, white, yellow, cyan | red | |||
| Red | grey, black, white, yellow, cyan | green, magenta, blue | Blue | grey, white, cyan | black, green, red | |||
