Writing on a dark blue background?

[Token]

My marines are mainly dark blue, some black and other colors, I want to write some runes and text on the dark blue background, what colors looks good? Would black wide lines with smaller thinner lines of.. white..? look good?

[winterdyne]

White. You can then overcolour that with something else, but you're likely to need the white to get the contrast to see the lettering. If you can get hold of it Vallejo Model Color Foundation White is excellent for this.

[Brother Nihm]

Grey with white highlights would look good I believe.

[Token]

How do you highlight grey text?

[Starks333]

How do you highlight grey text?

 

you can do it many ways

 

highglight areas from a direction(the simplest is the top) highlight just the top half...so for an I, you would only highlight the top half, the lower half would stay grey...or the third being edge and shadow to create a feeling of indentation

 

when doing whites, i recommend offwhites...grey whites are often a bit bland, which can work with colour schemes, i personally like yellowed whites...all you do is pick a yellowish colour(i use iraqui sand VMC) you can use any soft yellow brown to do this(snakebite, bubonic brown etc)...and mix a TINY bit into skull white

 

 

Alex

[Token]

im not having much sucess experimenting with diffirent colors, its really hard to highlight a small letter, i want it to look either... classy, like golden or something, or rough, like having runes cut into a stone.

[Starks333]

thats likely because you have terrible brushes...if they are not kolinsky sable you are gonna have a hard time keeping a fine point and thus difficulty with fine freehand

 

it can also be motor skills

 

 

regardless if you want indentations you just need to google "indented lettering" ....for golden letters i would suggest avoiding it, its difficult to pull off with little experience

 

i would honestly start with basic letters before highlighting them

 

 

 

Alex