Colour Theory- Second Session

This session we focused on the 7 colour contrasts: 

• tone 
• hue
• saturation
• extension 
• temperature
• complementary
• simultaneous 

Tone
Each colour has a different tone overall  for example blue has a dark tone, yellow has a light tone. When tones are close together they stand out less, to make things more noticeable you need a higher contrast. 

Hue
The greater the distance between hues on the colour wheel the greater the contrast. 

It's all about changing the relationships of colour, tone and hue higher the contrast the easiest to read. 

Saturation
How blue something is, not just how light or dark it is

HUE+TONE+SATURATION= CHROMATIC VALUE

Chromatic Value Definition 

Relating to colours or colour.

Relating to colour perceived to have a saturation greater than zero

Extension
Think about the balance of colour. The balance of colours on opposite sides of the colour wheel. The space between colours, eg. yellow and purple.

Here was a little something we were shown in the session, I found this quite interesting, as the closer the coloured lines are the more of the other colour you can see, I found it interesting that by just swapping the colours around can hurt your eyes less. 

Temperature
We can't be sure what colour we are seeing, we interpret colour as temperatures eg. red is warm blue is cold

By just adding simple black lines it really separates the colour, when those black lines are taken away it creates more of a gradient colour. 

Complementary 
Green and red battling for your attention, saturating colours, painful and active colours

Simultaneous
Our eyes are fooled to see colour.  Formed when boundaries between colours perceptually vibrate. Here is an example of simultaneous colour.