Tuesday, September 30, 2014

my color notes


  • Color in computer monitors is red, green, and blue to make secondary colors
  • primary, secondary and tertiary
  • purple is not on visible color spectrum because it is owned by a company
  • pigment generated colors are red, yellow and blue but light generated colors are red, green and blue
  • Pigment generated color is subtractive and light generating color is addtive
  • dark color reseeds and light colors comes towards you
  • RGB:red,green,blue
  • RBY:red,blue,yellow
  • CMYK:cyan,magenta,yellow,black
  • Monochrome: Tints, shades and tones of a single hue
  • Grayscale: black and white only
  • Web safe RGB: hexadecimal compatible
  • complementary
  • split compelentary
  • analogous
  • triad
  • tetradic
  • quadrilateral
  • Color palettes: pop art,russian poster art,metal,earth,beach,flowers,fruit,vegetables
  • Different color palettes invoke mood,location,emotion
  • color properties:cool,warm,bright,saturated..etc.
  • Color intensity changes in relation to its surrounding color
  • Color affects appetite

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