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Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Notes
Color Theory
- primary (red, blue, yellow), secondary (goldenrod, purple, mint green), and tertiary (in between all colors).
- visible color spectrum is/are the colors of the rainbow.
- pigment generated colors are derived from the primary red, yellow and blue. (computers, cell phones, ect)
- light generated colors are derived from the primary red, green and blue.
* photoshop lets you switch between RGB, RYB, and CYMK.
- subtractive color is pigment generated, whereas additive color is light generated.
- mixing primary colors creates other colors, such as the combination of blue and yellow making green, and blue and red making violet.
- a secondary color wheel can expand to tertiary and beyond.
- dark color recedes and light color advances.
- printers use the CYMK layout and mix the four to make any color. they overlap in dots to make dark/light colors.
- monochrome uses one color with tints, shades and tones, such as blue.
- grey scale is only black and white.
- web safe RGB is a hexadecimal compatible layout.
- tints add white to a single pure hue.
- shades add black to a single pure hue.
- tones add grey to a single pure hue.
- complementary colors are often found in nature.
- analogous are close together on the color wheel.
- triad is a triangle that points to complementary colors (3).
- tetradic is a rectangle that chooses unexpected color combos (4).
- quadrilateral is a square that chooses colors, just as the others (4).
* the pop art, beach, fruit and flowers color palette has bright colors, whereas the metal, Russian poster art, earth and vegetables color palette have softer, darker colors.
- color intensity changes in relation to its surrounding color, such as red being vivid against white and being barely visible against mauve.
* color has a huge impact in grocery store shopping due to the hue and brightness of the product.
- blue is not found in nature. (duh)
- pink is tranquil.
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