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	theory of colour: Orange is Tertiary
		There are also quaternary colours shown, they are a mixture of a tertiary colour and either the primary or secondary colour closest to that tertiary colour in the colour wheel.
		Colours are not pale or dark as such, colours are just colours.
		A colour mix, as previously discussed, may also be thought of as a mutual pollution of each of the colours in the mix.
	www.abelard.org /colour/col-hi.htm (2215 words)

	ColourTheory
		Colour mixing gives you a range of colours with a minimum number of tubes of paint (very useful when painting outside your studio).
		An intermediate colour is made by mixing a primary colour with the secondary colour closest to it.
		The complementary colour of a primary colour is the colour opposite it (green is the complementary of red, orange for blue, and purple for yellow).
	www.decorativedelights.homestead.com /ColourTheory.html (1260 words)

	colour theory :colourTheory
		Colour theory is a set of principles that increases the probability that the colours you use in a painting form a unified whole in terms of the entire painting.
		His theory was that form was conceptualized in the mind and if form was not mentally conceptualized first in the mind then you could not draw the figure standing in front of you.
		So, my definition of colour theory then is a set of rules that allows us to describe and predict the general outcome of visually perceived combinations of colours in which we have an enquiring interest.
	www.tinmangallery.com /WcolourTheory.html (5035 words)

	mpk's deviantART Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rather than being the one directly opposite the colour being the complimentary one, a split complimentary selection follows the basis where-by the split complimentary colours are either side of the directly opposite one (i.e.
		Incongruous colour choices are basically the split complimentary colour assumption except as opposed to including 2 colours either side of the complimentary colour, you just pick one (i.e.
		If colours do not clash, you’ve successfully achieved an understanding into a general aspect of colour theory that enables information to be interpreted with ease, in respective to the colours of course.
	mpk.deviantart.com /journal/3752071 (1147 words)

	Colour Theory Toronto, colour consultants for interior and exterior paint colours
		Home or office, interior paint colours or exterior paint colours, carpet or drapes, countertops or roofing… Colour Theory of Toronto can help you make the right colour choices for your personal taste.
		Colour Theory is a unique company that works within the realm of interior design.
		The end result is colour selections you love and are confident about using in your home or office.
	www.colourtheory.net (336 words)

	Introduction to Colour Theory
		If your first introduction to colour theory was one of those huge circles with what seems to be a hundred colour segments, you probably decided it was more trouble than it was worth and didn't go any further.
		The three colours in the corners (red, blue and yellow) are known as the primary colours (P).
		Colour theory also talks about warm and cold colours, which are meant to advance and recede as you look at them.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/fabric_crafts/35284 (423 words)

	theory of colour in science and art (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Artists choose colours based on design, aesthetic or emotional responses." It is commonplace to make references to colour when referring to human behaviour, for example, 'telling white lies', and 'caught red handed', as these word associations immediately conjure up a picture in the mind.
		Colour theory is progressive, and there have been many artists and scientists involved in its often turbulent history.
		Ewald Hering, a German Psychologist, whose interest in colour led him to various experiments and conclusions; one of which being that the natural symbol of colour was the D in which all tones could be arranged.
	www.physics.hku.hk /~tboyce/ap/topics/colour/colour.html (4134 words)

	Colour Theory
		Nevertheless, the colours are an accurate rendition of late-afternoon light illuminating this scene's fall foliage and ground-cover.
		Harmonizing colours are ones which can be found on the colour circle by visualizing the three points of an isosceles triangle that sits in the middle of the circle.
		Colour theory is usually taught to student painters in the first-year of art school.
	www.luminous-landscape.com /tutorials/colour_theory.shtml (1765 words)

	Colours on the web - color theory and color matching
		The complementary colours are the colours which are directly opposite from one another on the colour wheel.
		Besides the colour combinations described above, which are based on the position of the colours on the colour wheel, there are also a few other ways of combining colours.
		Colours can contrast in hue, value and saturation, but there are many different types of contrasts that have been defined by colour theorists throughout the years.
	www.webwhirlers.com /colors/combining.asp (1462 words)

	Color theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although colour theory principles first appear in the writings of Alberti (c.1435) and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (c.1490), a tradition of "colory theory" begins in the 18th century, initially within a partisan controversy around Isaac Newton's theory of colour (Opticks, 1704) and the nature of so-called primary colors.
		The RYB primary colors became the foundation of 18th century theories of color vision, as the fundamental sensory qualities that are blended in the perception of all physical colors and equally in the physical mixture of pigments or dyes.
		These theories were enhanced by 18th century investigations of a variety of purely psychological color effects, in particular the contrast between "complementary" or opposing hues that are produced by color afterimages and in the contrasting shadows in colored light.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colour_theory (3119 words)

	TASI :: Advice \| Creating Digital Images \| Colour Theory: Understanding and Modelling Colour
		We've already encountered two colour models which are primarily used in the reproduction of colour: RGB, used in additive colour reproduction, such as the computer screen; and CMY (or CMYK), which forms the basis of subtractive colour processes, like printing.
		Newton's colour theory was opposed by the influential philosopher Johanes Wolfgang Goethe in the early 19th century.
		By the early twentieth century, the nature of colour was fairly well understood: the distinction and relationship between additive and subtractive colour was clear, as was the understanding that colours could be described in terms of their hue (particular colour), strength (saturation or intensity), and brightness (lightness or darkness).
	www.tasi.ac.uk /advice/creating/colour.html (6187 words)

	Storm's Nest - Goethe on Newton's Theory of Colours
		Goethe on Newton's Theory of Colours ----- Newton surmised that when we see a colour spectrum emerge from a prism, it is due to 'the splitting of light into its component colours'.
		We no longer see the original phenomenon when we make so small a circle that the colours extend inward from the edges to overlap in the middle to form what is called a 'continuous spectrum', while with the larger circle, the colours formed at the edges stay as they are.
		The aperture has edges, and where the colours occur the reason is not that they are drawn out of the light, as though the light had been split up into them.
	home.earthlink.net /~johnrpenner/Articles/GoetheColour.html (1412 words)

	Design Notes: Color
		The farther from the center a color is, the brighter it is. Note that each hue is brightest at it's natural value: yellow is lightest and blue and violet the darkest.
		This theory is also used for dramatic lighting effects on stage in a theater.
		The primary colors in the pigment theory have varied throughout the centuries but now cyan, magenta and yellow are increasingly being used.
	daphne.palomar.edu /design/color.html (1974 words)

	Web Page Design for Designers - Colour
		A 'shade' of a colour is what that colour would look like if the light were shaded from it, or fl added to it, and a 'tint' is what we get when a colour is diluted with white.
		Blue is a cool colour, because that is the colour of the sky, and water.
		When someone tells you that their favourite colour is blue, as seven out of ten people probably will, it's because they've had a pleasant encounter with that colour in their formative years - sunny days, blue skies.
	www.wpdfd.com /wpdpal3.htm (1177 words)

	Hooker & Perron Books - Color Theory Books
		It is ground-breaking because, although each language uses words for colours to mean different things, the authors demonstrate that while the boundaries of colour vary from language to language, the central, focal colour is comparable across languages.
		On colour psychology, Max Lüscher is the acknowledged expert here (do you kind of get the idea the Germans have colour theory sewn up?...with the exception of Chevreul, of course).
		Arthur Pope's colour solid has two interesting features: he takes into account the fact that each colour, at its brightest and purest, is naturally a different value (lightness or darkness), so pure yellow is the lightest, pure violet the darkest.
	www.writer2001.com /bukcolor.htm (2051 words)

	COLOUR THEORY
		This is not intended to be accomplished by a transparent wash of dark across the colours to create the shadow, but by accurately and opaquely mixing each colour in the shadow in its turn.
		Colours A and B are "islands" in "seas" of X and Y colour.
		Normally represented radially on a colour circle from neutral grey in the centre to fully saturated at the circumference.
	users.bigpond.net.au /benjamin_joel/Colour_Theory (1191 words)

	COLOURlovers Coup.0 :: Articles / COLOUR THEORY BASICS :: Colour Wheel
		colours are arranged according to their chromatic relationship.
		primary colours are positioned equidistant from one another and are connected by a bridge using secondary and tertiary colours
		red, yellow and blue :: in traditional colour theory, these are the 3 pigment colours that can not be mixed or formed by any combination of other colours.
	www.colourlovers.com /article/1/COLOUR_THEORY_BASICS_::_Colour_Wheel (178 words)

	Color Matters - Design and Art - Color Theory
		Color theory encompasses a multitude of definitions, concepts and design applications.
		In reality, any color circle or color wheel which presents a logically arranged sequence of pure hues has merit.
		In traditional color theory, these are the 3 pigment colors that can not be mixed or formed by any combination of other colors.
	www.colormatters.com /colortheory.html (663 words)

	colour - elements and principles of design
		Compound colours are colours containing a mixture of the three primaries.
		In this illustration the compound mixtures between red and green are shown, as are tints and shades of the colour wheel.
		Imagine a colour wheel filled in with all the compound mixtures between all the complementary colours.
	www.johnlovett.com /colour.htm (350 words)

	Facts & Figures: Colour Theory
		The reason that the primary colour phenomenon exists at all is because the retina of the human eye contains receptors that are 'tuned' to different colours of the spectrum, namely to red, green and blue light.
		The cone primaries are theoretical colours that the brain would perceive if each of the three cone types could be stimulated individually (which is impossible) and are described as 'extreme red', 'psychedelic aquamarine' and 'extreme purple' in a most interesting document on the University of Colorado website which you can find here.
		Remember however that the colour wheel to the left is for additive colours (I've used it here because it's being displayed on a screen) and if you are mixing pigments you should use a colour wheel with the appropriate set of subtractive primaries.
	www.themodelmakersresource.co.uk /facts/facts011.html (1640 words)

	The psychology of colour \| Colour Theory, Toronto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is the interaction of colours with each other that creates a satisfying mood in your environment.
		Colours that might be too intense to use in a large room.
		Sylvia O'Brien is a colour consultant and creative director of Colour Theory, a Toronto based firm that helps clients find the perfect colour of paint for their living or working spaces.
	www.colourtheory.net /articles/colour_psychcology.htm (777 words)

	mezzoblue § Colour Schemes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A ‘technical’ method of colour-selection involves choosing one or two dominant colours from the colour wheel, to be used with a small set of complementary colours.
		Basic colour theory concepts like split complementary and triadic colour schemes offer a wide range of variation, particularly when you start throwing in shades, tints, and saturation adjustments.
		The only flaw is that you’re limited to the dominant colours; sometimes the colours pulled out of a photo come from just a few pixels of accent that would probably blur into something else.
	www.mezzoblue.com /archives/2004/05/14/colour_schem (3690 words)

	Colour \| David Airey :: Graphic and Logo Designer
		Colour and emotion are very closely related, so it makes sense that designers need to pay particular attention to colour choice.
		The links are separated into the following: colour palettes and combinations, colour theory, colour tools, colour patterns, and colour code.
		The designer sets the file exactly as is required, yet when the client sees an example on their computer monitor they are disappointed that the colour isn’t the same.
	www.davidairey.com /category/colour (391 words)

	The Luminous Landscape
		Understanding Printer Colour Management — the proper settings for using profiles
		Understanding Colour Theory — academic colour theory applied to landscape photography
		Understanding ProPhoto RGB – are you throwing away much of the colour gamut your DSLR is capable of?
	www.luminous-landscape.com (831 words)

	skolsteren
		Turner, for example, used Goethe's colour theory which was translated into English in 1840 by C. Eastlake, President of the Royal Academy of Arts.
		Goethe's Theory of Colours and the Pre-Raphaelites is a book-length, unpublished study of the colour theories in 19th century Victorian England and the colours of the Pre-Raphaelite painters in the years 1848-1860.
		If you are interested in Pre-Raphaelites, 19th century British art and/or colour theories, send your e-mail address to skolsteren@csi.com and you will receive the full text with notes (as a zip-file) and bibliography.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/skolsteren (5785 words)

	explorations of pure colour theory \| MetaFilter
		June 27, 2006 7:33 AM Color theory is demonstrated before your very eyes, inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johannes Itten, Joseph Albers, Marcel Duchamp and George Jetson.
		Goethe's theory of colour^ is covered here in a fair summary.
		The theory, and the work - Zur Farbenlehre - was enormously influential, Schopenhauer in particular coming out aggressively for Goethe against Newton.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/52588 (596 words)

	efg's Color Reference Library -- Color Science / Color Theory
		Color Theory is a set of principles used to create harmonious color combinations.
		Dated history of artists and pigments, dated color theories, techniques of the past, past color theories.
		J. Gardner, "Uncertainty Estimation in Colour Measurement," Color Research and Application, Vol 25, No 5, October 2000, pp.
	www.efg2.com /Lab/Library/Color/Science.htm (2141 words)

	Advanced Color Theory
		This article echoes the definitions read earlier but takes a more mathematical and scientific approach to color.
		And remember, all of these ideas still tie back to the COLORCUBE model and the theory that surrounds it.
		Color is a phenomenon of light caused by how our eyes detect differing qualities of projected or reflected light.
	www.colorcube.com /articles/theory/theory.htm (882 words)

	ColorMatch.dk
		Basic colour theory concepts like split complementary, triadic colour schemes, Analogous Color Scheme, Monochromatic Color Scheme etc. The page has been made avalible by the creator of the commercial Color Wheel Pro software.
		Color My World by Molly E. Holzschlag, is an older article about colors and webdesign, but it is still a very valid reading for webdesigners.
		This article teaches a little about how to set the right mood using the right colours.
	www.colormatch.dk (385 words)

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