• Ref I:
    • colour wheel
      • primary, secondary, tertiary
    • colour harmony
      • aesthetic, harmonious, pleasing
      • stay away from extremes
      • ex: analogous colours - trois colours next to each other, the complementaries, au natural
    • colour context
      • colour relationships, oo drama, against diff. backgrounds
  • Ref II
    • colour harmony/colour chords
      • pretty colour combos
      • complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, tetradic/rectangle, square
    • warms, cools, neutrals
    • tints (+white), shades (+black), tones (+grey)
  • Ref III
    • two levels to it, the psychological (brains) and aesthtic
    • it's isaac newton, not issac newton. rip my brain
    • five main colour schemes to spice up your life
      • analogous: three colours/tints next to each other
      • complementary: one or more pairs of colours that cancel each other out--the opposite
      • split-complementary: a combo of the above two--what the f uck does that mean?
        • a base colour and the two colours adjacent to its complementary
      • triadic: three colours that are equal distance from each other--triangle.
      • tetradic: two sets of complementary colours
    • colour warmth/coolness, ofc is important because they cause an emotional response
      • associations depend on personal experience and cultural meanings
may 15 2019 ∞
jan 30 2020 +