B&W or Color?

Same product, same price but one is color and the other is B&W - which do you choose?

  • Color

    Votes: 189 87.5%
  • Black and White

    Votes: 27 12.5%


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Ashy said:
Please tell me what you think! :D
Is this a trick question?

Um....color. Why? Have you seen when Dorothy stepped out of the house into munchkin land?

Serioulsy, content is more important to me that presentation. I'm a substance over style guy, all the way. So, B&W is perfectly fine. Color is nice, and will probably net a few extra sales, but long term sales of a product are going to be motivated by quality, not color.

Two cases in point:
1) Stone to Steel. B&W book. Excellent, excellent, excellent.
2) Magical Medieval Society. The small-press pdf standard of excellence.

Both are black and white.
 



diaglo - why?

I'd prefer color. What I don't like is a mix-and-match, like they did with the Kalamar Campaign Sourcebook. In that book, they chose a color decoration to go on the outer edge of all the pages, but to save on printing costs they only printed a page in color if it had some other picture on the page that was drawn in color. So the decorative border is in color on some pages, but not others.
 


hmmm.... If I had two books that had equal information, pictures, diagrams, and price and the only difference was one was in color and one was in black & white...Then I'd have to go with color it catches the eye.
Plus, it give me not just a shape, but a color to look for when I am flipping pages. "I know the class is on a page with a central figure in a red cloak."
 

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