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Understanding Color An Introduction for Designers

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ISBN-10: 0471715085

ISBN-13: 9780471715085

Edition: 3rd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Linda Holtzschue

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From theory to practice-enhance your skills in working with color! Connect the dots between your emotional, intuitive responses to color and the theories that explain them. Learn how to use color more comfortably, creatively, and effectively than ever before. Take your work to the next level by exploring how different light sources affect color rendition, how placement changes colors, how to avoid costly color mistakes, and how to resolve the color problems that frequently confront design professionals. Order your copy today!
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Book details

List price: $65.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/9/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Preface
An Introduction to Color Study
The Experience of Color
Color Awareness
The Uses of Color
Color-Order Systems
Color Study
A Little Light on the Subject
Light
Mixing Light: Additive Color
Lamps
Lighting Level
Vision
The Illuminant Mode of Vision
The Object Mode of Vision
Modifying Light: Colorants
Modifying Light: Surface
Transparent, Opaque, and Translucent
Lamps and Color Rendition
Metamerism and Matching
Luminosity
Indirect Light, Indirect Color
Modifying Light: Filters
The Human Element
The Sensation of Color
Visual Acuity for Color
Threshold
Intervals
The Perception of Color
Physiology: Responding to Light
Healing and Color
Synaesthesia
Psychology: Responding to Light
Color and Meaning
Naming Colors
The Vocabulary Of Color: Hue
Hue
The Artists' Spectrum
Primary and Secondary Colors
Saturated Color
Other Spectrums, Other Primaries
Chromatic Scales
Cool and Warm Colors
Analogous Colors
Complementary Colors
Equilibrium
Simultaneous Contrast
Afterimage and Contrast Reversal
Complementary Contrast
Tertiary Colors: Muted Hues and Brown
Black, White, Gray
The Vocabulary of Color: Value And Saturation
Value
Value and Image
Transposing Image
Pure Hues and Value
Tints and Shades
Monochromatic Value Scales
Comparing Value in Different Hues
Saturation
Saturation: Diluting Pure Hues with Gray
Saturation: Diluting Pure Hues with the Complement
Tone
Working With Color
Color Composition
Ground and Carried Colors
Placement and Color Change
Ground Subtraction
Reversing the Illusion: Two Colors as One
Influenced and Influencing Colors
Optical Mixes: Partitive Color
Spatial Effects of Colors
Color Illusions
Spreading Effect
Color and Area
Color Harmony
In Search of Beauty
A Brief History of Color Theory
Color Theory and Harmony
Color Harmony: From the Ground Up
Intervals and Harmony
Hue and Harmony
Value and Harmony
Saturation and Harmony
Major and Minor Themes
Some Harmonious Conclusions
On Beyond Harmony: Visual Impact
On Beyond Harmony: Dissonant Colors
The X(tra)-Factor: Surface and Harmony
Tools of the Trade
It's the Real Thing: Color in Product and Print
Artists' Media
Subtractive Mixing
Tinting Strength
Process Colors
The Medium of Light
The Medium of Light
Lost in Translation
The Screen Display
Monitors
Software: Color Display Modes
Printed Images
Standards and Supports
Distributed Screen Images
The Business of Color
Palettes
Color Cycles
Color Forecasting
Color Sampling
Traditional Colors
Color and Product Identity
Influences on Palettes
Glossary
Workbook
Bibliography
Index