Wednesday, February 25, 2015


Color


Visual color spectrum is seen in ROYGBIV, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. Primary colors (pigment) are red, yellow, and blue. Primary colors digitally generated are Red, Blue and Green.  Mixing primary colors creates secondary, and mixing secondarys and primaries create tertiaries. Dark colors recede and light colors come forward (not always trues when saturation is taken into account)
Color modes can be monochrome (one color and black and white), Greyscales (black white and grey), and RBG. Tints are when white is added to a pure hue, shade is when black is added to a pure hue and tones are when grey is added to a pure hue.
            Complementary colors are colors that are across from each other on the color wheel (orange and blue, yellow and purple, red and green). Split complementary is when you take a complements color and move one color to the left. Analogous are three nearby colors. Triad forms the same pattern as the three primaries. Quadrilateral takes two complements across from each other.
            Colors are heavily reliant on their relative colors. Different saturations of colors appear more saturated relative to their complement.