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Emphasis

Emphasis. The Most important element on a page should be the most prominent. Emphasis: what is most important?. Consider your elements to form a visual hierarchy. What is most important? Second? Third?. Emphasis: some techniques. Look for a focal point.

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Emphasis

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  1. Emphasis The Most important element on a page should be the most prominent.

  2. Emphasis: what is most important? Consider your elements to form a visual hierarchy. What is most important? Second? Third?

  3. Emphasis: some techniques Look for a focal point. Add accents. (Photo: San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2008.)

  4. Emphasis: more techniques Bold type. Big type. Bright colors. Texture. Make it look different. Surround by white space. Use continuity: other elements bring the eye to the focal point. Tilt at an angle.

  5. Emphasis Type

  6. Emphasis Use of white space.

  7. Emphasis Bright colors, tilt at an angle.

  8. Emphasis Make it look different. (Photo: Canterbury, UK, 2008)

  9. Emphasis Use continuity to emphasize a strong focal point. (Photo by Lewis Hine.)

  10. Emphasis Before the U.S. Civil War, newspapers did not consider design elements to be important. (First issue of the New York Times, Sept. 15, 1851.)

  11. Emphasis By the 1890s, emphasis became a central aspect of newspaper design. (New York World, Feb. 18, 1898.)

  12. Emphasis How could you add emphasis to improve the advertisement below?

  13. Emphasis Let’s review. Which of the visual tools we’ve discussed can we find in the photo below (by former student Travis Kroh)? Similarity. Proximity. Continuity. Closure. Emphasis.

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