Type & color choices as made by millennial students

This exercise is always part of the first three weeks of the semester for my course, Multiplatform Design & Storytelling, which are devoted to a Design Boot Camp.

Once the students have been exposed to the essentials of typography and color, the students are now prepared to study how type and color are utilized and present, which they must justify, to the rest of the class.

As my students are all millennials, I find it interesting to see what their choices are and thought you might find them interesting too. Here is a sampling:

Good use of type

Good use of color

Vox is always a crowd pleaser for students for its choice of yellow, which contrasts so nicely with the type in black.

Below iview displays a turquoise color that is quite trendy with millennials.

Here is Smart News with its tutti-frutti approach to color, but one which is distinctive and used consistently throughout the site.

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