Anyone have any tips for designing for latinos/hispanics? Like newsletter/page layout design?
September 22nd 2009
In some cultures colors mean something and can be offensive…anything like that in the latino and/or hispanic culture??? Also do certain letters mean something….I’m having trouble finding things…PLEASE HELP!!!!! anything that would be useful when designing for muliticultural audiences would be a great help…including sites…
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Stay away from things that resemble a Cross. Most Hispanics are Catholic and might consider that quasi-offensive. As far as colors, you should be OK to use what ever you like. Letters-I am Mexican myself and don’t know of any cultural significance places on any specific letter, so you should be OK in that regard as well
September 24th, 2009 at 11:39 am
As a hispanic, I like things to be colorful and have lots of cool shapes. Try to use bright blues and red and greens. Stay away from blacks and grays, we **** those colors. Put some flags that represent spanish countries, but try to put as many flags as you can. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve only seen a mexican flag and a puerto rican flag only. You gotta put Paraguay, and Honduras and countries like that. Then put a chili pepper border or something, and a picture of tamales. We like that. But make sure you don’t put a picture of Pablo Escobar, or a picture of coca leaves or something like that, otherwise we’ll start a riot. And yes, I speak for all hispanics.
Try not to use the letter M, it’s offensive. I mean some hispanics like that letter, but the majority don’t.