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Color Contrasts, Optical Illusions
Perception of a color is seen by its context, either the environment surrounding the color or its proximity to another color. The context can influence a concept by making it stand out. When used wisely, a complementary contrast of a warm and cool color can be a successive layout pleasing to the audience’s eye.
I find it interesting that as light affects color, its constancy will let us recognize it. Color has a relativity illustrated in effects of transparency, optical illusion of depth and proportional variances.
A designer interacts color to communicate a distinct or simple message.
Color Perception
Everyone views and perceives color differently from each other.
To be specific, there are 3 different kinds of color perception that can be talked about.
S-Cone (Small Cone), M-Cone (Medium Cone), and L-Cone (Large Cone).
S-Cones are associated with the color blue, M-Cones are associated with green, and L-Cones are associated with Red. Usually, a normal person that can perceive all three colors have good color perception. However, there are times when those cones aren’t really functional for the person to perceive. They also talked about how different deficiencies can intertwine with each other; an example is when a person has L and M blindness, meaning that they can’t see the color green and red the way most people would perceive them to be.
When light is inefficient when seeing something in the dark, rods take over. This means that everything turns into a blue/gray tint (kind of giving us a night vision).
Color blindness seem to also effect males more than females due to limited factors in our hue receptors (L, M, and S)
Reading Assignment: Color Psych
Color Psychology started when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe questioned Newton’s solely scientific approach to organizing and combining color. He discovered cool colors evoked or were associated with negative emotions and that warm colors excited people or provoked more passionate responses. He divided colors into a system of minus and plus. The cool, being minus and the warm, being plus.
There were many other influential individuals in the (continuous) evolution of color psychology and color organization, but the most fascinating individual to me is Albert Munsell. He realized the that the color wheel was flawed because the color relationships are distorted due to the varying saturations of pure hues. He then created the Munsell Tree, which is a 3D color/chart model that takes into account hue, value, and saturation (HV/C was his method for organization), rather than relying heavily on hue alone. The HV/C was mathematically organized by applying number values to each category, ergo you can figure out an infinite number of color combinations to get just about any color you want. It is most useful for manufacturing and environmental design purposes. The major flaw in his system is that it is entirely based on his perception of color, which he realized. He believed that each individual can create their own unique color palette over time and that they will consistently use this palette to create color. The reason it is unique is because we have a slightly different perspective of how we see color.
Homework Color Contrast
Contrast of Hues
Light-Dark Contrast
Cold-Warm Contrast
Complimentary Contrast
Simultaneous Contrast
Contrast of Saturation
Contrast of Extension
color systems
There are many color systems and tools designed to provide a visual reference, Triangles, color wheels, and more complex diagrams are a few. 3 primary, 3 secondary, and 6 tertiary colors comprise the basic color wheel. Visual references can help you select and combine colors that work well together. Most basic color wheels are limited to pure hues and only one level of saturation. The Pantone system or Pantone Matching System is a proprietary color space used in a variety of industries. Pantone is a color system that is universally accepted. The Pantone system is used for both printing and mixed media, including textiles and digital design.
color systems
There are many color systems and tools designed to provide a visual reference, Triangles, color wheels, and more complex diagrams are a few. 3 primary, 3 secondary, and 6 tertiary colors comprise the basic color wheel. Visual references can help you select and combine colors that work well together. Most basic color wheels are limited to pure hues and only one level of saturation. The Pantone system or Pantone Matching System is a proprietary color space used in a variety of industries. Pantone is a color system that is universally accepted. The Pantone system is used for both printing and mixed media, including textiles and digital design.
Color Systems
There are many color systems and tools designed to provide a visual reference, Triangles, color wheels, and more complex diagrams are a few. 3 primary, 3 secondary, and 6 tertiary colors comprise the basic color wheel. Visual references can help you select and combine colors that work well together. Most basic color wheels are limited to pure hues and only one level of saturation. The Pantone system or Pantone Matching System is a proprietary color space used in a variety of industries. Pantone is a color system that is universally accepted. The Pantone system is used for both printing and mixed media, including textiles and digital design.
Color Wheel Reading
Organizing color into a simple system has proved to be an ostensibly impossible feat to accomplish. Since 384 B.C. many scientists and artists having been trying to come up with the perfect color wheel or color organization system. Aristotle, Da Vinci, and Newton, to name a few, all had different ideas about color and the way we should think about them, and honestly they were all correct in their own way. Color can’t really be put into a step by step chart or wheel “perfectly” because the rainbow isn’t a step system. Putting color into a system does help us though. Whether you are a painter or a designer using color wheels helps you create compositions that are more aesthetically pleasing and interesting when you think about how they react with one another when mixing paints or placing different colors next to one another.
COLOR WHEEL
I found the different perceptions and ideas of what the correct color wheel should look like was interesting as well as the way certain color wheels apply to a variety of people depending on the line of work they are in, such as the way a painter would use the artists color wheel because it incorporates green as a primary color in order to reach more hues and levels of saturation where as the process wheel would be used by someone who works with translucent media. It was interesting to me because you can apply this in many ways, the way we apply color on the screen is different than the way you apply it on to a canvas and it was interesting to see the many reasons why these differences occur.