Colours, lettering and layout
Every colour, text colour, lettering style and layout the print pack offers, for each of the three designs.
Where the settings are
Open the Printable QR pack and tap More choices on a phone. The settings are in folding groups: Colours, Name on the sheet, Lettering, Layout, Your logo, Photograph, Your pictures and Printing. A closed group shows its current choice beside its name.
Signal colours
Signal has five colour sets. Each has three text colours.
| Colours | Text colour choices |
|---|---|
| Dusk and amber | Cream, Amber, Violet |
| Hot pink and lime | Deep plum, Black, Deep magenta |
| Monochrome | Off-white, Silver, Stone |
| Ink and aqua | White, Aqua, Lavender |
| Bone and orange | Black, Espresso, Burnt orange |
After Dark colours
After Dark is a base plus a highlight, which makes twelve combinations.
- Base: Near Black or Midnight.
- Highlight: Hot pink, Amber, Aqua, Lime, Violet or Coral.
Its text colours are White, the highlight you chose, and a quiet grey-blue that goes with the base (Mist on Near Black, Steel on Midnight).
Plain colours
Plain prints in one ink, so there is no separate text colour to pick. Everything on the sheet is the colour you chose.
- Black and white or Colour on white.
- With Colour on white, pick one colour: Navy, Teal, Forest, Burgundy, Plum, Indigo, Chestnut or Slate.
- Reverse flips it to white on that colour (or white on black).
Greyed-out text colours
Some text colours are shown but cannot be chosen. They are too close to the background to read. Tap one and the pack tells you the reason and gives a number, for example how many to 1 the contrast is, where print needs 4.5. Pick another text colour, or change the colours above.
Lettering
Each design has three lettering styles. They sit in the Lettering group.
| Design | Lettering choices |
|---|---|
| Signal | Geometric, Grotesque, Typewriter |
| After Dark | Tracked serif, Tracked geometric, Quiet grotesque |
| Plain | Condensed and plain, Geometric, High contrast serif |
Layout
The Layout group decides what the eye lands on first.
| Design | Layout choices |
|---|---|
| Signal | Instruction leads, Act name leads |
| After Dark | Instruction leads, Act name leads |
| Plain | Instruction leads, code centred; Instruction leads, code on the margin; Act name leads |
If your act name is the draw, choose Act name leads. If you want the room to know what to do from across the pub, leave the instruction in front.
You will see: the preview changes as soon as you tap a colour, a lettering style or a layout.
If your colours are for your own page rather than your printed sheet, see Colours and typeface. The two are separate settings.