Forum 6: Swatchy Schemey

Intro

For this week's assignment, we had to make an original color scheme on InDesign and use those colors to make name plates and a swatch grid. The colors I chose my color swatches from is something very close to me. Literally. I used my bedspread. There were a lot of different colors to choose from so I liked that I would have many options within the pattern.

Name Plates and Swatches

Creating the swatches was pretty straight forward. I created a square using the Rectangular tool and copied the original square I made to ensure the following ones were all the same size. After creating the colors by making new "Color Swatches", I ensured that there were no strokes on any of the boxes and had to slightly reorganize each of them to be flush against one another to avoid having a white border between my colors. I created a Red, Dark Blue, and Pink and then made the corresponding tints at 75% and 25% of the original's strength.

After making my swatches, creating my nameplates was very simple. I used the font "Copperplate Gothic Bold" on my name and "Copperplate Gothic Normal" on the Headline of each nameplate. I liked how my colors complimented each other, so it didn't take long to create the nameplates and decide where to assign each color.