Key Components of Color
- Hue: The pure color (red, blue, green).
- Value/Lightness: How light or dark the color is.
- Saturation/Intensity/Chroma: The brightness or dullness of a color.
- Temperature: Warm (reds, yellows) or cool (blues, greens).
Color Systems & Models
- RGB (Red, Green, Blue): Additive model for light (screens, digital).
- CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black): Subtractive model for printing.
- Hex Codes: #RRGGBB format used in web design (e.g., #FF0000 for red).
Color Schemes & Theory
- Primary Colors (RYB): Red, Yellow, Blue.
- Secondary Colors: Mixed from primaries (Green, Orange, Purple).
- Analogous: Colors next to each other on the wheel (e.g., yellow, yellow-green, green).
- Complementary: Colors opposite each other (e.g., red & green, blue & orange).
- Triadic: Three colors evenly spaced (e.g., red, yellow, blue).
Applications
- Design/Web: Creating branding, user interfaces, and visually appealing layouts.
- Marketing: Using color psychology to evoke specific emotions (blue for trust, red for excitement).
- Interior Design: Using rules like the 70/20/10 rule for balanced room palettes.
Essentially, color contents are the building blocks and rules for using color effectively across various mediums, from digital screens to physical spaces.