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This chapter deals with various aspects of colour and contrast, focusing on light, spectrum, colour pigments, complementary colours, colour circle, and colour features as well as successive contrast and simultaneous contrast. With developments in chemistry, three basic and pure pigments have been derived for printing: magenta, red tending to purple; yellow, bright and luminous; and cyan, blue tending to green. Successive and simultaneous contrasts are inevitable physiologically, and in consequence, some significant factors should be recognised as significantly influencing the effects of contrasts such as distance between interacting zones of colour and interaction of adjacent colours, their hue and luminosity. By highlighting our sensitivity, we view the ‘interaction’ of colours as things do really occur in the real world. If we produce a serialised field of colours and combine a number of colours in diverse numerical arrangements, our sensitivity to colour interaction within the field is immeasurably sharpened.
This chapter deals with various aspects of colour and contrast, focusing on light, spectrum, colour pigments, complementary colours, colour circle, and colour features as well as successive contrast and simultaneous contrast. With developments in chemistry, three basic and pure pigments have been derived for printing: magenta, red tending to purple; yellow, bright and luminous; and cyan, blue tending to green. Successive and simultaneous contrasts are inevitable physiologically, and in consequence, some significant factors should be recognised as significantly influencing the effects of contrasts such as distance between interacting zones of colour and interaction of adjacent colours, their hue and luminosity. By highlighting our sensitivity, we view the ‘interaction’ of colours as things do really occur in the real world. If we produce a serialised field of colours and combine a number of colours in diverse numerical arrangements, our sensitivity to colour interaction within the field is immeasurably sharpened.
Colour and Contrast
Lewis, Nigel (author)
Design and Order ; 295-319
2020-09-08
25 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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