Tag: color theory
The science and craft of color — perception, theory, systems, and practical application in design.
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My Musical Taste Stopped Evolving in 1983 (and That Turned Into a Research Question)
I was somewhere on the highway between my house and my mother’s, probably an hour in, radio off,…
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Your Brain Made That Up
I was sitting with Dan Margulis’s book, the LAB color one, “Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum,” and…
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Color Is a Frequency. That Changes Everything.
Part 1 of the color theory series: why color-as-emotion is incomplete, and what happens when you start treating…
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CRAP, But Make It Color
Part 2 of the color theory series: how Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity apply to color the same…
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Color Is Three Things at Once
About this post: This is the first of three pieces on color. For twenty-five years I’ve watched design…
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How to Build (and Fix) Any Palette
Part 3 of the color theory series: a practical system for building and fixing any color palette, grounded…