COLOR THEORY

Interactive Tutorial

The Poynter Institute Color Contrast & Dimension in News Design

The Poynter Institute Color Contrast & Dimension in News Design http://poynterextra.org/cp/index.html This flash based training tool developed by The Poynter Institute school for journalists,. is an interactive color guide that explains color theory and shows how to use in in design through examples and online exercises.


Color in Motion

Color in Motion – by Claudia Cortés

An interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism


Colorstrology

Colorstrology
– by Michele Bernhardt


 

Online Color Resources

idee labs


Multicolour Labs – Flickr Creative Commons: 10 million creative commons images indexed from Flickr and made available for searching using their multicolor search.


worqx.com


Worqz.com
is an extensive list of resources and tutorials about color theory including a pallet picker and other resources.


 

Color Wizard – The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected.
It returns a set of hue, saturation and tint/shade variations of your color, as well as suggests color schemets to you, based on your color’s complementary color, split complementary colors, analogous colors and other variations. The color wizard also has a randomize function that lets you generate color schemes you might not have thought of on your own.

Virtual Color Museum – The Color Order Systems in Art and Science: "a complete cultural history of color", including illustrated explanations of 59 color theories from antiquity to modern time, plus the significance of colours in various cultural systems.

 

Books

Color – Messages & Meanings: A PANTONE Color Resource

– by Leatrice Eisemann


Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color

– by Leatrice Eisemann


The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color

– by Johannes Itten


The Complete Color Harmony: Expert Color Information for Professional Color Results

– by Tina Sutton


The Complete Color Harmony Workbook: A Workbook and Guide to Creative Color Combinations

– by Kiki Eldridge



 

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