Can I use colored text?
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It's best not to colorize small text.
What happens is that all printing presses have a little bit of variance in the consistency of the position of the different color plates.
This is called mis-registration.
The cyan, magenta, yellow and black portions of the text characters don't line up exactly. So the result is little colored halos around the characters.
It's OK to use colored text on large, headline type, or smaller sizes down to about 14 point size, but much smaller than that will be too noticeable and you won't like it.
The same thing holds true for white (knock-out) text on a dark or colored background. You can do it but don't use point sizes smaller than about 14 point. Otherwise the words may be hard to read and it will look unprofessional.
Example of Small, Colored and White Text when Magnified
