Teaching resources appear throughout the book, in addition to the checklists
A font 225 Audience ‘metrics’ or descriptors 5 Colour section I-VIII (between 282 and 283) Comparing different output resolutions 304 File types (mostly common web format abbreviations) 136 Footnotes, references and bibliographies 263-267 Halftones, stipples, screens and reverses 282 Learning display setting (a developmental exercise) 274 Learning heading hierarchy (a developmental exercise) 271 Learning to use colour (a developmental exercise) 281 Making a style book 182 Making your own type catalogue 230 Markets for corporate identity (a developmental exercise) 86 Marketing terminology 145 Measuring systems 227
Picture selection and text interaction (a developmental exercise) 183
Proofreading marks 254
Storyboarding (film techniques and terminology) 118-119 Text analysis (an example using a title) 15 Type nomenclature 224 Typeface associations (a developmental exercise) 237
Using the colour section in class
Good demonstrations of how the four colour process works have been rare – particularly since the introduction of different screening processes. The comparison of different techniques of creating CMYK images is useful in any discussion of print production and image reproduction.
The 8-page colour section, after page 282, starts by comparing conventional and stochastic screening (page I). Page 304 does the same for black and white reproduction.
Colour separations are shown broken out into their separate plates and each plate is reproduced in both its colour and black (for comparison of the tonal make-up of each colour) and then combined. This is shown for both conventional (page II) and stochastic screening (page IV, so you can flip between them) – and also for under colour removal (page III) and quadratones (page VI).
Duotones are shown in separations as well (page V) – and flat tint or ‘fake’ duotones are demonstrated.
Some effects are shown using metallic ink (page VII) and fluorescent ink (page VIII) including a demonstration of fluorescent colour replacement in four colour process.
The colour section sits well with the text chapter on Colour systems, from page 287, that follows it, explaining the way colour is created in different reproduction systems (halftone dots, pixels, RGB, Pantone, CMYK, etc.).
