Colors make any object interesting and exciting. To make your designs and media material stand out, it takes one color, or two, or even three extra dashes. Hence, spot color design can be as rewarding as any process design. Here is an adaptation of money saving design ideas to make colors look more, as well as other ideas to make your design stand out:
Overprinting colors can create a third interesting color. Printing one color over another creates a third color. Remember
fundamentals of color when we were still in kindergarten? To create green, combine yellow and blue; for violet, its red and blue; and for orange, red and yellow, and so on and so forth. Integrate this concept with a good knowledge of how to make your colors work for you and a good relationship with a printer, will definitely give you something that will attract even most choosy clients.
Paper color can be your third color. Nowadays, there’s wide range of interesting and arresting papers to choose from. There are papers with solid colors that are very attractive. There are those that have flowers or a combination of different papers in them. Whatever it is, a kind of paper that differs from your colors in design would make a world of difference in final outcome.
A variety of tints will create an illusion of many colors. To create many colors from two colors, experiment with a variety of tints. There are roughly ten tints of every color available to you. From 10% to 100%, all of them reflect a different shade from each other.
Experiment with duotones. Duotones are photos printed in two colors. One great idea is to create subtle effects from sepia tones for posterized looking pictures.
