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Brand colors are great.

Color-coding by category is greater.

But avoid using those brand colors as body font within paragraphs.

Colored font is okay for headers, but not for the body.

What’s Inside

0:00 Intro

0:31 Before: Example from a Public Workshop

1:33 After: Dark Dark Dark Gray Body Font

2:21 The Before-After Difference

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