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Color Scheme

The document discusses color schemes for design, including related schemes like monochromatic and analogous that use harmonious colors, contrasting schemes like complementary and split complementary that use high-contrast colors, and discordant schemes like double complement and tetrad. It also covers how to utilize color compositions for spatial effects, balance, unity, and emphasis in design work. Examples are provided to illustrate each color scheme type.

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Color Scheme

The document discusses color schemes for design, including related schemes like monochromatic and analogous that use harmonious colors, contrasting schemes like complementary and split complementary that use high-contrast colors, and discordant schemes like double complement and tetrad. It also covers how to utilize color compositions for spatial effects, balance, unity, and emphasis in design work. Examples are provided to illustrate each color scheme type.

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Color Scheme Computer Graphics & Design 1


Faculty of Information and Communication Technology
2nd July 2005
Silpakorn University, Thailand

Dr.Surapong Lertsithichai, Ph.D.


Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University

Pongpan Suriyapat
IT University of Göteborg, Sweden
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Color Scheme

Utilize combination of colors and mixing of colors


to create compositional effects in a design
Related Schemes (harmonious)
- Monochromatic
- Analogous
Contrasting Schemes (different)
- Complementary
- Split Complementary
- Triadic
Discordant Schemes (conflict)
- Double Complement
- Alternate Complement
- Tetrad
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Related Schemes

Monochromatic - This color scheme uses a single hue


(example: blue and its varying tints and shades)
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Related Schemes

Analogous - This scheme uses adjacent hues (example: red, red-orange, and red-violet)
Often found in nature, usually feels harmonious
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Contrasting Schemes

Complementary - two hues opposite each other on the color wheel (example: red and green)
- Provides highest possible color contrast and stability
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Contrasting Schemes

Complementary

- When used together, makes each color seem brighter, more intense,
and sets off a visual excitement
- Good for a highlight color or an emphasis
- Using lighter shades of complementary colors can recreate a glow
of light and color vibrancy
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Contrasting Schemes

Split Complementary
– three colors: any hue and the two adjacent to its complement
(example: red, yellow-green, and blue-green)
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Contrasting Schemes

Split Complementary
- Split complementary can give an image a high degree of contrast while retaining
a greater harmony than the use of the direct complementary
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Contrasting Schemes

Triadic
- three colors that are evenly spaced from each other (example: red, yellow, and blue)
- Provides a very balanced color scheme
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Discordant Schemes

Double complement
- This color scheme uses two pairs of complements
(example: yellow and violet, blue and orange)
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Discordant Schemes

Alternate complement
- This scheme uses four colors: a triad and a complement to one of the hues
(example: red, yellow, blue and violet)
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Discordant Schemes

Tetrad
- This scheme uses four colors evenly spaced on the color wheel
(example: red, green, yellow-orange, and blue-violet)
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Color Compositions

Spatial Effect
Balance
Unity
Emphasis
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Spatial Effects

Lighter hues with maximum saturation (yellow, orange)


appear larger than darker hues w/ max. saturation (blue, purple)
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Spatial Effects

A light color on a dark background appears to expand,


a dark color on a light background appears to be constricted and smaller
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Spatial Effects

Colors tend to appear darker on a light background than on a dark background


Cool colors appear to be distant, warm colors appear to be closer
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Spatial Effects

An object with a solid color appears larger than one that is broken up or incomplete
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Balance

Highly saturated colors draw more attention


therefore carry more weight than less saturated colors
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Balance

Combination of multiple hues appears heavier than a single hue


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Unity

Use analogous colors or non-contrasting hues


Mix complement color, neutral gray, tint or shade
Add a common hue to every color in composition
Repetition, set of colors, cool/ warm colors
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Emphasis
Use contrast techniques
- Hue, value and saturation
Use complementary colors
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Studio Work
Complementary Color Scheme

Analogous Color Scheme

Double Complementary Color Scheme

Feeling : Depth

Feeling : Playful

Feeling : Exhausted

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