Project Symphonium - Picking Titles! (edit)

[tanlammy]

Currently working on my degree book (which I think I'll never be able to finish, what with 100 pages to work on in 5 days =_=;) but I'll try and do it without killing myself...

Um, just getting a 2nd opinion from everyone - which colour title suits best to the font I'm using?

Comments

[madsqueeble]

Question: What's the colour of your book cover? It affects how the eye perceives the final thing and all that.

Opinion: I'm digging the deep red and the blue. They seem more...music-y, somehow.

Suggestion: Decrease the kerning between the 'O' and 'N'. At the moment thanks to the wonderful flourishes in the latter, the word can come across as 'Sympho Nium'. Trippy, but perhaps not what you were aiming for. ;D

[tanlammy]

Answer: Book cover has been uploaded on the entry, do check it out ;)

Re:Opinion - Blue's got 2 counts so far. But might change when you see the cover so...

Solution: Have uploaded one example of the N being pushed nearer to the O (I think I'm breaking lots of font rules for this but, WTH, rules are made to be broken!!!) Yeah I want people to read it as one word - "Symphonium" - not as a broken word :/ Thanks for pointing out! :D

[madsqueeble]

Ah so it WAS Scriptina. XD

I'm sticking with blue - but perhaps a deeper shade of it?

[trirose]

I have no idea what's inside the book, so it's hard to pick ^^;; I'd say to go through the book and chose the colour that pops up the most, whatever that is.

Also, is your senior's font, bookcover, topic, arrangement, etc, etc the same as yours? If the two books are not very similar at all then i'd just go ahead and use the same colour. The only thing important is that nobody mistakes your book for hers. I really wouldn't use "I can't use this because someone else is using it/has used it" as a limitation. It's very.... limiting XD; You've only got, what, seven colours to use? Just pick whatever colour you like, but change something (the shade, the background, the font, the arrangement, etc) so that your book is different.

[tanlammy]

Eto...still doing the book, but I gather there's more whites, greys and black than any other colour currently DX

Current colour palette arrangement according to book sections:
Movement 1 > project info stuff/data - lots of white space, greys and black text (so far)
Movement 2 > design conceptualization - will have more colour images (due to research stuff), and a bunch of sketches that Ben insisted I throw in (=.=), and a bonus for colour/material test-renders (which I've done).
Movement 3 > full, blown-out colour through and through - all 2D drawings (black linework, coloured), and 3D renderings (colour/textures), down to the materials page.

So it's sort of a gradual process from b/w to colour in the very end for the book >wI've done some changes for the text - and made a comparison too, for the font colour and style used (have uploaded it on my edited entry!) It is vastly different, the results, so I guess I CAN go ahead to use the colour - but the thing is, it's sort of ingrained in Ben/classpeeps mind the colour combo of the

[shirou_ohsakura]

Crystal here:
Why is "-nium' looks separated from "Sympho-"? Is it the font type's spacing or deliberately done? O.O Like MY and JL said, I see no cover I can't decide/vote for ya ^^;;;; But I will go with the Blue color. It seems so you.

(Artistic wise, blue gels with black better LOL)

[tanlammy]

Hi Crystal ^__^

Uuuhhh, "Symphonium" shoulda be one word - yeah, MY pointed out it looks broken/separated. Have uploaded the updated version where the N is nearing to the O so (hopefully!) now it looks like one word ^-^ Cover's been uploaded too, on the edited entry, so do take a look and tell me what you think XD

(haha, I used to think blue is my colour too XD; But now I'm more on red! XD XD XD)

[trirose]

Actually, having seen the cover

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I'd go with white. Srsly I didn't realise it was so.... rainbow coloured XD; I think even the gold would get lost in the pic unless you are doing real gold printing + embossing.

The part with your name on it can be coloured though (just so it doesn't look lazy XD . Also, it makes the title pop a little more.).

I want to do stuff to the font too, but if Ben's already approved it, don't bother, since it's extra work for you XD; I would like to make the title bigger though, it seems to be a little lost in the rainbow?

Also, I suspect the two above aren't gonna check back and see that you've edited the entry, so it'd be best if you just reply back and ask them to check this entry again.

[tanlammy]

Eh no no no...^-^; What I meant was, the title to be used INSIDE the book, not the outside cover. The cover's settled, just the titles inside the book.

'Coz not only the colour will be applied to this main title [Symphonium], I'll be using it to title the various sections (Design Philosophy, Concept, Drawings, etc.) and possibly those blank pages before the next important section-page.
So the coloured title thingy sort of gives the book a colour identity too in terms of text...like the senior's book, we equate that gold+black inside her book to hers already (and she also uses the gold on those important section titles)

Re:cover - I'll adjust the title size accordingly - yeah, my name itself looked a bit lost in the rainbow LOL

Have noted them to come back check it out~

[trirose]

~Ahhh I c ic. I do like the new logo with the words pushed together.

I like the full rainbow idea (It's easy, you can hold down the control key to make a selection of the text in photoshop, and then create a layer mask over a rainbow-colored layer), **BUT** it might look tacky, depending on the printing ^^;; (on the upside, it brings across your idea, while standing out from the monochromatic class at the same time XD )

If you're going with blue, I'd suggest a slightly darker/brighter shade, the pastel thing doesn't seem grand enough XD . As for using the same gold your senior used, I guess that's your judgement call, whether the books are different enough that nobody will ever notice the colour.

And last but not least, you could always use a different colour(s) for each title, working your way through the rainbow. Since there's seven colours and you have only 3 movements, you could try using two colours for each title, or if there is a subtitle, use one colour for main title and one for subtitle.