Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
Visual Logic
Structuring the Page
Intuitive Arrangement
Integrating Type and Image
Layout Systems
THE SILHOUETTED IMAGE
is a welcome break from the geometric regularity of the text columns
and tinted blocks.
Martin Oostra
Netherlands
Integrating Silhouettes
Silhouetted images—whose contours are free from enclosure
in a rectangle—share a visual relationship with the rags of paragraphs or columns but
also share an opposing relationship with their alignments. Type adjacent to a silhouet-
ted image offers more or less contrast, depending on its location relative to the image.
If the rag leads into the image contours, the two elements flow together, and the type
