Essay On Color Theory

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Jennifer. Lam Mr. Campbell Web design 2014.11.21 Color Theory Color theory is no only belongs to art or science, but both. The definition of primary colors is dividing into two areas. The first one is Additive primary color, a term that descript the primary color (RED, BLUE, and GREEN) only for light. If mix various colors of light together, the result will be a brighter color, because the more light energy the brighter. For example, if we mix blue light and green light, the result color will be Cyan (lower color tonality than green and blur) . Therefore, white light as the brightest light and color is the combination of every color light. The additive colors is generally use for screens of electronica device, the RBG pixels create all …show more content…

The mixture of various color of matter will make the result color appear darker, because the color (of matter) will absorb the light energy that other color would reflected, in other words, as the decrease of amount of light being reflected, the result color will appear darker. For example, the mixture of cyan and magenta is purple which is has higher color tonality the combination of every color of matter is black. The subtractive color is normally use for digital printing, the more color of matter been used the duller the printing appear (white is the absence of all …show more content…

A Tint of a color usually has lower color tonality and the shade of a color usually have higher color tonality. For example, cyan and blue have the some hue, but cyan is brighter, so tonality is probably around 30%, and blue is a darker color, so the tonality is around 80%. The tonal progression can help viewer to contrast colors, if color tonality of two colors is far from each other, then it allows color to be distinguished from each other. Take Yellow and Blue as example, if we consider yellow in color tonality, it will be around 20~30 % and blue can be 70~80 %. The tonality between yellow and blue is around 50%, so there is a big difference between the tonality of yellow and blue,in other word, if we use this two color in web design, the viewers are able to distinguish the color easily, so it will have good legibility. Example of bad contrast and low legibility can be ‘crimson and azure’ or ‘orange and olive,’ because they all placed with colors of similar

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