Monday, February 29, 2016

Color Theory

Design
  • You see ROYGBIV because its the visual color spectrum
  • Pigment generated model is: Red, Yellow, Blue
  • Light generated colors: Red, Green, Blue
  • Pigment generated is lighter and light generated is brighter
Color Mixing
  • RGB: light generated model
  • RGY: pigment generated model
  • CMYK: print process model
Color modes
  • Monochrome: tints, shades and tones of single hue
  • Gray scale: black and white only
  • Web safe RGB
Color Modification
  • Tints: Add white to pure hue
  • Shades: add black to pure hue
  • Tones: Add gray to pure hue
Color Harmony
  • Complementary colors opposite of each other on color wheel
  • Split complementary
  • Analogous colors are next to each other
  • Triad: triangle in a color wheel
  • Tetradic: rectangle in color wheel
  • Quadrilateral: square in color wheel
Color Properties
  • Cool,Warm, Bright, Dark, Saturated, Desaturated
  • Color intensity changes in relation to its surrounding color
  • Color associations are generated from different cultures
  • Color increases brand recognition by 80%
  • Pink is a tranquilizing color

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