This document discusses color interaction and principles as outlined by Michel Eugène Chevreul and Josef Albers. Chevreul studied how the presence of one color affects another color seen next to it, known as simultaneous contrast. Albers later identified three principles of color interaction: light/dark value contrast creates the illusion of light and shadow; complementary colors create a vibrant reaction when placed next to each other; and subtraction occurs when a color is seen against a background color.

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2. michel
eugene
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4. in this case green, in order to neutralise the complementary effect.
Plate 6: One of the plates illustrating M. E. Chevreul’s The Laws of Contrast
and Colour & etc.., Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1859.

11. josef albers

16. principles of
color interaction
1. Light/DarkValue Contrast
2. Complementary Reaction or Effect
3. Subtraction

17. Light/dark value contrast

18. Light/dark value contrast

19. complementary reaction

20. complementary reaction

21. subtraction

22. subtraction

23. Optical mixtures

24. Optical mixtures