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Harrower:The Newspaper Designer's Handbook
The Newspaper Designer's Handbook, 5/e
Tim Harrower
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Exercises

  1. Using the fonts available on your computer, decide on a font and style for the following headlines:
    1. Mayor grieves for stricken husband
    2. Turnip takes top prize at county fair
    3. EnormoCorp to take over Tiny, Inc.

  2. Imagine you are designing a color page on dinosaurs. Which of the following elements might you add spot color to? Why?
    1. A sidebar on recent discoveries of dinosaur bones
    2. A black-and-white photograph of a dinosaur footprint
    3. A map of the United States showing where different kinds of dinosaurs lived

  3. What colors, if any, would you incorporate into your design of the following features?
    1. An article about a Thanksgiving parade
    2. An article memorializing fallen firefighters
    3. An article on local laundromats

  4. Does your local newspaper use color? If so, do the colors register successfully? How might the designer of the newspaper alter the use of color to make it more effective?

  5. Following the guidelines on page 208, design a color palette for your local paper.








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