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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6841653" data-attributes="member: 6701872"><p>You are welcome, and thank you for not taking the criticism personally.</p><p>It's my personal opinion that readability is first priority, so a more "bland" option that is more readable will always win my favor over a "fancy" or "cool" option that is less readable. So yes, I'd recommend ditching the textures besides the one on page 10 - or at least tweaking the other textures so that there is clearer contrast between the text and background, and adjusting the layout so that you don't have any text over the dark red corners of the one background without something enhancing the contrast there (like an outline on the text, though putting that in could cause a different problem with the look of things).</p><p></p><p>On the vampiric ghoul page has the darker parts of the background texture behind the text (specifically right in the middle-left of the first two paragraphs under the Vampiric Ghoul heading) that makes the text look washed out at 100% zoom. The texture being less intense (putting it over a white background and bumping the texture's opacity down a bit, for example) would clean that up.</p><p></p><p>The following page bothers my eyes - reading text over a multi-colored background just doesn't work well for me. I'm not sure if that is a common thing or not. It would likely also be cleared up by making the texture less intense.</p><p></p><p>I suggest playing with things a bit to see if you can find something that looks good to you and also looks like it will work better to you, rather than just following all my advice without exploring on your own - this whole design thing is art, and therefor subjective enough not to have just the one "correct" way to do things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6841653, member: 6701872"] You are welcome, and thank you for not taking the criticism personally. It's my personal opinion that readability is first priority, so a more "bland" option that is more readable will always win my favor over a "fancy" or "cool" option that is less readable. So yes, I'd recommend ditching the textures besides the one on page 10 - or at least tweaking the other textures so that there is clearer contrast between the text and background, and adjusting the layout so that you don't have any text over the dark red corners of the one background without something enhancing the contrast there (like an outline on the text, though putting that in could cause a different problem with the look of things). On the vampiric ghoul page has the darker parts of the background texture behind the text (specifically right in the middle-left of the first two paragraphs under the Vampiric Ghoul heading) that makes the text look washed out at 100% zoom. The texture being less intense (putting it over a white background and bumping the texture's opacity down a bit, for example) would clean that up. The following page bothers my eyes - reading text over a multi-colored background just doesn't work well for me. I'm not sure if that is a common thing or not. It would likely also be cleared up by making the texture less intense. I suggest playing with things a bit to see if you can find something that looks good to you and also looks like it will work better to you, rather than just following all my advice without exploring on your own - this whole design thing is art, and therefor subjective enough not to have just the one "correct" way to do things. [/QUOTE]
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