General guidelines – Tektronix Phaser 600 User Manual

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General guidelines

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Keep a document or design simple and consistent.

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Select colors that look good together and that reinforce your message.

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Check your application for standard palettes to get you started.

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Use a color scheme of five or six shades, and in a series of images, use
the colors in a consistent manner throughout the series.

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Use color to show relationships between objects, such as a range of
values. Objects with a similar meaning or value should be in similar colors.

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Avoid red and green combinations; these colors are hard for people with
red/green color blindness to distinguish.

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Avoid red and blue combinations; these colors cause the eye to focus at
different lengths.