Colors

INTRODUCTION

Colors  are complement of images and represent the artist’s psychological atmosphere in communicating. Color is also an element that is very sharp to touch the sensitivity of vision so as to stimulate the emergence of a sense of emotion, sadness, joy, mood, or spirit, and others. To develop an accurate response to the language of color, it is first necessary to understand the harmony of color. This means knowing what color to use and in what order and proportion to create a desired mood, to communicate an idea, or to elicit a reaction.

HOW TO USE COLORS

An effective color scheme can make a room feel warm and inviting or a graphic design able to attract more attention. Before learning what color to use in order to achieve the best results, one must first understand some basic color terms.

Each primary, secondary, and tertiary hue is at a level of full saturation, or brightness, which means that there is no black, white, or gray added. Color is described in terms of value, which is the lightness or darkness of a color, or relative amount of white or black in a hue. White added in increments to any of the twelve colors result in lighter values of the hue called tints. The incremental addition of black or gray to a hue results in darker values of the hue known as shades.

COLOR WHEEL

The twelve of the color wheel consist of primary, secondary, and tertiary hues and their specific tints and shades. Constructed in an orderly progression, the color wheel enables the user to visualize the sequence of color harmony. The color chart is the color wheel in chart form.