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Critique: On spec(trographic)

Today’s contribution come from Michael Young. This will be shown at this year’s Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems conference , but he’s given me permission to show you as preview. Click to enlarge! Because the poster is intended to show off the website, it features near the middle of the poster, which is appropriate placement. Michael’s own assessment of the poster is that despite much editing, it is still too wordy. I agree, but the good news is that the typography is clean and understandable, apart from a tenuous touch of the institution name with the title bar. The descender on the “y” in “University” is killing me. I also the colour combination of blues and tans. It’s consistent throughout. The blues provides a good contrast to the logo, appropriately situated out of the way, unobtrusive and quiet. The underlying structure of this portrait style poster is a solid two row grid: I might have preferred a little more space between the rows to separate them, but the spac...