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Colors
This document discusses various aspects of color including: - The four main properties of color - hue, saturation, temperature, and value - Different color harmony schemes for combining colors such as monochromatic, analogous, complementary, split complementary, triadic, and tetradic - How color is additive in RGB and subtractive in CMYK - The phenomenon of simultaneous contrast where the perception of a color is affected by surrounding colors - Sociological meanings and associations that different cultures attach to various colors
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- 1. COLOR Hue • Specificwavelength Saturation • Dullness or intensity Temperature • Warmth or coolness Value • Lightness or darkness
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- 8. HARMONY how to putcolors together These color rules ensure a harmonic balance of colors
- 10. Monochromatic - willalways match
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- 13. Split Complementary (colorson either side of the complement)
- 14. Triadic (forms aperfect triangle)
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- 16. A nice colorharmony tool
- 17. Where have youseen CMYK? Where have you seen RGB?
- 18. Color Light is Additive+ Red Green Blue Pigment is Subtractive - Magenta Yellow Cyan RGB CMYK Emiting Reflecting
- 21. Using the colorpicker tool
- 24. COLOR INTERACTIONS Two colors, sideby side, interact with one another and change our perception accordingly. The effect of this interaction is called simultaneous contrast. Since we rarely see colors in isolation, simultaneous contrast affects our sense of a color.
- 26. Extension • Relativevolume of one color to another so each seem to have the same presence
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- 57. It was closeto noon, and the sun poured through the glass panes above the entrance, flashes of green and orange and blue shimmering onto the granite floors. - NY Times, Feb. 8, 2018
- 58. In this setting,with the light from the panes slowly moving across their surfaces, the black and white patterns of the marble panels looked almost impossibly dramatic — they had become something primordial, like cave drawings, like the concept of black and white itself.
- 59. A full spectrum oflight encircled the top arch of one wall, shadows bouncing off Kelly’s stations.
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- 61. We entered the chapel.First, I was overwhelmed by waves of liquid, colored light. Yellow, blue and green. Those words make them sound distinct, but they were one pulsing phenomenon, indivisible. My eyes were absolutely awash in color. The intensity was astounding. - Washington Post, Aug. 8, 2019
- 62. A giant waveof emotion flowed through me. I felt as you do when you’ve lost control in the surf and you’re tumbling around underwater, not knowing which side is up, and you can only wait for the upheaval to end. It was not euphoria I felt. It was not sadness. It was not self-pity or nostalgia. Nor was it religious insight, or a feeling of oneness with all humankind. It was just pure, uncontained emotion.
- 63. What color doyou see?
- 64. Does language affectthe way we perceive color?
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