Pure design: Color headlines

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Color headlines Every designer and/or editor I have met has his own opinion on the subject of color headlines.And so do I, of course. My preference is for headlines in black, 99 percent of the time. In the days before newspapers could reproduce beautiful color through photographs and illustrations, the occasional headline in color added a bit of visual excitement to the page. However, today we can achieve colorful pages without colorizing headlines. True, feature pages may benefit from a touch of color in a headline, but more often, a page can run the extra mile with just good color images, and a nice, big black headline. 

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