creative duotone effects: a visual guide to choosing successful color combinations

One of the most important points of graphic design is full utilization, getting the most mileage out of the given specifications. When designing with black-and-white photography or when two-color printing is required, the duotone presents an important consideration. Duotones in isolation or in combination create strong graphics and add a real sense of depth. Creative Duotone Effects is a design tool with a two-fold approach.

First, it considers the variations within the two-color specification by showing two examples of each combination, with the first color predominant and then the second. By screening down the intensity of one of the colors the other will influence the final result.

Second, Creative Duotone Effects recognizes the difficulty in anticipating the final results of any combination, and solves this problem by reproducing over 480 different combinations. This gives the designer an opportunity to select with confidence. Three sections of the book display the many possibilities: black with a second color, two non-black colors, and two-color ghosting. The CMYK percentage breakdown for each color is listed, for easy use in any desktop application.