COLOR STUDY
Colour Study
What is colour?
Introduction:
Color is the aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of light being reflected or emitted by them.
Introduction:
Color is the aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of light being reflected or emitted by them.
To see color, you have to have light. When light shines on an object some colors bounce off the object and others are absorbed by it. Our eyes only see the colors that are bounced off or reflected.
The sun’s rays contain all the colors of the rainbow mixed together. This mixture is known as white light. When white light strikes a white crayon or marker barrel, it appears white to us because it absorbs no color and reflects all color equally. A black crayon or marker cap absorbs all colors equally and reflects none, so it looks black to us. While artists consider black a color, scientists do not because black is the absence of all color.
Color History:
Color theory was originally formulated in terms of three color is primary(red,blue and yellow),secondary(green,orange,violet),teriary color(RV,BV,BG,YG,YO,RO)
These color mixing behavior had long been known to printers, dyers and painters, but these trades preferred pure pigments to primary color mixtures, because the mixtures were too dull (unsaturated).
Munsell color System
Munsell's color system represented as a three-dimensional solid showing all three color making attributes:lightness, saturation and hue.
source:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Munsell-system.svg/290px-Munsell-system.svg.pn
source:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Munsell-system.svg/290px-Munsell-system.svg.pn
Colour theory:
Color theory encompasses a multitude of definitions, concepts and design applications - enough to fill several encyclopedias. However, there are three basic categories of color theory that are logical and useful : The color wheel, color harmony, and the context of how colors are used.
Color theories create a logical structure for color. For example, if we have an assortment of fruits and vegetables, we can organize them by color and place them on a circle that shows the colors in relation to each other.
Colour properties:
- The color wheel or color circle is the basic tool for combining colors. The first circular color diagram was designed by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666.
- the most common version is a wheel of 12 colors based on the RYB (or artistic) color model.
- there are a number of color combinations that are considered especially pleasing. These are called color harmonies or color chords and they consist of two or more colors with a fixed relation in the color wheel.
12 wheel
Primary Color
(red, blue, yellow)
Secondary Color
(green, orange, violet)
Tertiary Color
(BG,VB,OY,GY,VR,OR)
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