The world of colour

Reflection

This week we looked into how colour is used throughout design practices such as how it is harmonies, compliments and the overall phycology of using colour. Also how colour theory is essential for understanding the design elementals and what it has become from only using minimal colour to now using all colour.

Colour theory

Colour therory is the study of colour and how colour interacts with each other for example Isaac Newton created the first colour well in 1666 this was represented by his findings in the book opticks. He then created different shapes of the colour wheel as this was a triangle before it came to be a wheel. This shows many different angles of light in his colours. Furthermore to come from the colour wheel brought primary, secondary and tertiary colours.

• Primary colours- these colours are the most commonly used colours which consists of red, blue and yellow
• Secondary colours are primary colours that have been mixed together such as green, orange and purple.
• Tertiary colours are a stem off both primary and secondary colours such as turquoise, orange red and violet.

Colour harmonies

These are harmonies such as analogues, complimentary, training and monochromatic colours which are all colours that can go together or not.

• Analogous colours are colours that are close together on the colour wheel which can be used as a harmony colour pallets.
• Complimentary colours are directly opposite each other on the colour wheel.
• Triassic colours are three colours which blend nicely with each other.
• Monochromatic colour are colours very similar to each other and have slight differences.

The exercise we have been shown today was to make our own harmonies using Miro board these are my three.

Colour phycology