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LI: to identify the four areas of print design

The print design rules are; Composition, Layout, Colour and Text. The print design rules explain what will catch audience's attention and what is to be used when making a good piece of work. Examples are shown on the slide with either a thumbs up or thumbs down depending on if its shows bad C, L, C or T

Composition
Having a good composition means you have an equal balance of text and photos/images. Having bad composition, means there are unequal amounts of images and photos on the same DLO.

Layout
A good layout include aligning on a DLO and how big the text is, the image size and how much space is used. Bad layout shows unaligned media or other, like text or images on the DLO. If not much space has been used and there is lots of clear empty space in the middle or in your DLO, it becomes a bad layout.

Colour
Good colour uses colours that work well together. The colours include the text colour, DLO template colour and all things on the DLO that include colour. Bad colour is when you use to many clashing colours and too many bright, enraging colour formulas. Clashing meaning when it hurts your eyes or when you have to much bad colours together. Example:

Text
Good text includes, minimum different fonts, text colour, text size and if the text is relevant to the topic. If the text is easy to read and differs from the background colour. A light background and a light coloured text makes it hard to read. If every different piece of text has a different font and size, it wont merge and look good together.