With colors you can set a mood, attract attention, or make a statement. Color affect us in numerous ways, both mentally and physically. By selecting the right color scheme, you can express yourself or build up a solid visual work. Color can be your most powerful design element if you learn to use it effectively.
The color wheel is the basic tool for organising hues. The first circular color diagram was designed by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666.
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In 1692 an artist known only as “A. Boogert” wrote a book about mixing watercolors that is currently kept at the Bibliothèque Méjanes in Aix-en-Provence, France.
Spanning nearly 800 completely handwritten (and painted) pages, Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau, was probably the most comprehensive guide to paint and color of its time. It’s hard not to compare the hundreds of pages of color to its contemporary equivalent, the Pantone Color Guide, which was published in 1963 and with its list of 1.144 colors is the current reference for all graphic designers and visual communicators. More recently, the RGB Colorspace Atlas by New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach is a massive tome containing digital offset prints of every variation of RGB color possible. A printed work on RGB color is kind of paradox if you consider that any print is based on a subtractive CMYK color method.
Spanning nearly 800 completely handwritten (and painted) pages, Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau, was probably the most comprehensive guide to paint and color of its time. It’s hard not to compare the hundreds of pages of color to its contemporary equivalent, the Pantone Color Guide, which was published in 1963 and with its list of 1.144 colors is the current reference for all graphic designers and visual communicators. More recently, the RGB Colorspace Atlas by New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach is a massive tome containing digital offset prints of every variation of RGB color possible. A printed work on RGB color is kind of paradox if you consider that any print is based on a subtractive CMYK color method.
When you write about color you can identify them by referring to their hue, shade and tint according to different definition related to the material nature of the color you are writing about. If you are talking about oil painting for example you can simply use the Oil Paint Color Chart linked below. If you need some more specific information on pigments and the nature of paints and dyes, please refer to THIS WEBSITE. For general suggestions on how to call a color you can just type the name of the color + shades on Wikipedia, for example "pink shades".
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