DESIGN PRINCIPLES - COLOUR THEORY

Had a really interesting workshop and lecture today with Fred, discussing colour theory, colour modes, colour wheels, complimentaries, primaries, tertiaries, hue, saturation and alot more.

We arranged the coloured objects into red, green, blue, orange, yellow an violet and then arranged them so they seamlessly overlapped which got us thinking about how we compare and differentiate colours. Learnt alot of interesting things about colours, tints and shades and how similar yet different CMYK AND RGB are. Also about subtractive and additive colour.

Here's when we arranged the blues into shade, tint and hue. With the purest, or most "bluey" object in the centre.

                             

We then learnt abit about pantone swatches etc. We were tasked with arranging 10 blue objects into a scale. In the centre was the "bluest" object, working outwards there was a scale of SHADE, TINT and HUE.

   

A combination of all the scales, working clockwise from bottom left - hue, shade and tint. The blue bottle lid in the centre is the focal/centre point that the objects work outwards from.

Hue.

Shade.

Tint.

The pantone codes for the objects were:

centre colour : 2727M

SHADE

072M > 2747M > 2757M

TINT

2925M > 305M > 364M

HUE

307M > 3113M > 3275M