April 11, 2019
Classic Learning Research in Practice – Color Harmony
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April 11, 2019
Classic Learning Research in Practice – Color Harmony
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Colour plays an important, but secondary, role in recognition. A red apple and a green apple seem at first to be identified by colour. But both red and green apples are identified first as an apple, and only secondly by colour. The initial recognition is of form: this is an apple, not a banana, not a kiwi, not a pear. We see a red apple because, the colorant of a red apple absorbs all wavelengths except red. Only the reflected red wavelength reaches the eye.

An average human eye can discriminate about 150 steps, or individual colors (hues) of light.

  • Hue:the name of the color—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet
  • Value:the relative darkness or lightness of a color. A series of intervals between black and white
  • Saturation, or chroma:the relative brilliance or muted quality of a color. A saturated color is a hue in its strongest possible manifestation

Harmony is the happy condition that follows when two or more different things are sensed together as a single, pleasing experience. Color harmony can be achieved by combining colors that are:

  1. Complementary
  2. Analogous
  3. Triad
  4. Split- Complementary

Harmony by the Numbers: Schopenhauer’s harmonious colour circle is made up of unequal arcs. Each complementary pair is meant to be equal in light-reflectance to the other two pairs.

red + green: 6 + 6 = 12 | blue + orange: 4 + 8 = 12 | yellow + violet: 9 + 3 = 12

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2019-04-12 07:01:48
2019-04-12 07:01:48

WIth Adobe Capture you have the possiblity to create color palettes.  I have often described tthe best way to design a Theme in Captivate, which should always been based on a good Theme Colors palette. Too bad, that I often see that developers I have to assist during consultancy jobs, seem to ignore even the existence of themes and those color palettes.

Will post some links in a separate comment (moderation waiting time).

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