B&W or Color?

[Ashy]

Please tell me what you think!

 

[Bagpuss]

About what?

 

[Ashy]

Check the poll, Bagpuss... Thanks!

 

[Ibram]

All other things being equal I'd chose color over b&w most times.

 

[francisca]

Please tell me what you think!

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]

black and white

 

[Ashy]

Yea - we are talking quality product here, of course, not trash...

Just looking at production figures.

 

[MerakSpielman]

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.

 

[qaaral]

Black and blue

 

[Laurel]

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."