F1 type colour misuse slide

Summary

A typography-colour misuse page that forbids red type and red tints, showing each banned case as a swatch card struck through with a diagonal line.

Visual description

Cream background, standard header, sub-label "Misuse", page "96". The left column carries three short headed notes: "Warm Red text" (never colour text red, in any size), "Red and Type online" (the WCAG below-14pt-Bold caveat for red-on-white and white-on-red), and "Warm Red tints" (red is the colour of passion and energy, never diluted, 100% always). The right side is a set of swatch cards each crossed out by a thin diagonal stroke. The top row, "DO NOT USE WARM RED FOR TEXT", shows red "RED TEXT" on white and on black, plus two "ONLINE..." cards with small red copy below 14pt. The bottom row, "DO NOT TINT OUR WARM RED", shows a stepped red-to-pink ramp with "WHITE TEXT" and a column of "RED TINT" fading out, both struck through. Display words use the heavy condensed face.

Key takeaway

Using a single diagonal strike-through over real specimens to mark every prohibited case, so the don'ts read as fast as the do's on the facing page. Grouping the bans by reason (text, online, tints) with a one-line rationale each keeps it instructive rather than just restrictive.

Reuse notes

A clear misuse-page template: show the wrong thing rendered exactly as someone might do it, then strike it out. Best paired directly opposite the approved-combinations page so right and wrong sit together. Keep the rationale lines short.