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Use color and fonts well

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Use color and fonts well

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- [Instructor] Now we've looked already at changing the default colors and fonts in a report using custom themes or just regular report themes in fact. But how else can we use color? Sometimes it's good to use it to emphasize a particular visual. If all your visuals look quite similar compare this with this, the user's attention is immediately drawn to the orange graphic, where I use color to attract the user's attention to a particular graphic I tend to reinforce the size and the layout messages as well. So on this page, the largest graphic is clearly vying for the user's attention this one in the top left. And I think it would be quite odd if you were to highlight one of these small right-hand graphics or these lower graphics in a bright color because the user is then getting mixed messages. The size is telling them to look at one graphic and the color is telling them to look at another. So I tend to use color…

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