Digipack revision

I have looked at the Digipack again, It was suggested that I address the clarity of the foreword section so I experimented with different fonts and colours. Using photoshop, because of it's ability to show changes on screen without making them I played around with the fonts and colours screen shotting using the grab utility as I went.  All I changed was the foreword section to see if I could find a complimentary font to the mistral font used elsewhere. Mistral is the font that I am using to create a portion of the star's identity.

Having looked at some of the possible font options I decided that none were suitable and that Mistral was my best option. Mistral continued the font theme I had through all of my other production pieces. I decided that the issue was mainly a factor of colour. The black text on the sepia background did not work so therefore I set about playing with colours.

The existing colour on my Digipack was black and having decided on mistral as the font I needed to work out how I could lift it off the background and make it clearer and more visible. Therefore I decided to play with the colouring.The original colour was Black and this was blurred and hard to read.  Green as shown left is too vivid and would make the digipack look too striking as it contrast the sepia background to much. White blends in too much to the sepia where there is softer lighting and consequently if used on the entire digipack it may appear bland and harder to read. Therefore I decided that a consistent theme of yellow may work. If I lift the text using a drop shadow effect, there will be a soft contrast between the background and the text and thus the digipack will have the right blend of subtlety and clarity.

After this experimentation I have found what i consider to be the best combination of visuals and text for my Digipack. Mistral font which matches.will match my other production pieces combined with sepia instrument backdrops and a yellow font. The structure of my Digipack is the classic single case with room for the CD and another lyric/foreword page with the theme of sepia running inside and out.