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The Brads – Learning About Contrast in Design

on Jul 9th 2009 with 73 comments
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In this comic, you’ll learn about the fundamentals of contrast, which is an important part of design. This comic touches on key areas of contrast like grayscale, tints, readability of text, along with examples and fun explanations. Enjoy this informative comic strip!

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Brad Colbow is an independent web designer living and working in Cleveland Ohio (USA). He is also the creator of the weekly web comic "The Brads" about two web designers trying to start a small company. You can check out the latest comic and the archives on Brad's website.  

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  • grimdeath

    if only all tutorials were this fun! :D beautiful way to teach concepts!

  • WildWon

    Fantastic! Simple, yet explains some rules that most people wouldn’t consider. Way to be! Keep up the killer work :)

  • http://www.livingforart.com Jasmin Halkić

    Nice article! Very useful!

  • Curtney

    Nice tutorial! Very helpful to beginners like myself. I wouldn’t sweat the small spelling mistake.

  • http://www.ImEnk.com Enk.

    Now that was Cool..
    Very very usefully for newbies like meh :P

  • Dai Hoang

    i praise your aggressive to post comic but it’s not really useful otherwise is extremely time consuming :D

  • http://www.evolveredes.com Roberto

    Very good information. Thanks.

  • http://basitforexmarketing654.blogspot.com Basit

    Good !!!

  • Malak

    SIMPLE, TO THE POINT, CLEAR & FUN!

    Thanks, an excellent tutorial.. my first read and I’m already a huge fan!! XD

  • http://www.russelpea.com Russel Pea Stickers

    Explanations in comics: a really cool way for an explanation, and the content is also interesting so…. thumb up on Stumble Upon!
    Thank you

  • http://businesscards24.com Unique Business Cards

    Very fun tutorial and some very good tips too :)

  • http://www.tapeten-news.de Thomas

    Nice one, love it :)

  • Joz

    bea-utifull. Thanks a lot Brad.

  • Andy

    Really cool comic.

    One comment:

    “Readers are conditioned to look at larger and darker items as being more important than smaller lighter ones”

    I — and everyone I’ve ever mentioned this to — often subconsciously skip over things that are larger and darker as I skim a page looking for something. My conditioning is that they’re normally the thing the page author wants me to look at (adverts, pointless callouts, etc) rather than anything I’m actually looking for.

  • John MacAdam

    Great stuff Brad

  • http://www.prestonracette.com Preston Racette

    Very Useful! Keep them coming!!!

  • http://designearth.in Design Earth

    A nice way to teach. I like the way. keep it Brad.

  • John Tanedo

    This is one unique way to make an article. . . very interesting. . .

  • Jeff

    This is a great tutorial. Learning at every step in a way that is fast, fun, and hopefully memorable. Nice Job.

  • http://lektorathanke.de Thomas

    Ironically, the present version of owltastic lacks some contrast. The color scheme looks quite like the screenshot above. It’s pretty close to gray and (brown) gray in (blue) gray…

  • http://www.webzplus.com.au webZplus

    I love your tutorials, so much more fun with a splash of colour :-)

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