Color is one of the most important design element and every seasons, companies pay a huge amount of money try to invent new color or to stay with the color trend. And in this post, we explore some more about color, like generators, or color research tool.
Color Wheel
To understand color, you need to under the color wheel first
In the color wheel, we have 2 formula formed:
Analogous colors – any three colors which are side by side on a 12 part color wheel, such as yellow-green, yellow, and yellow-orange. Usually one of the three colors predominates.
Complementary colors – any two colors which are directly opposite each other, such as red and green and red-purple and yellow-green. In the illustration above, there are several variations of yellow-green in the leaves and several variations of red-purple in the orchid. These opposing colors create maximum contrast and maximum stability.
Color Mode (Spot color, RGB, CMYK……)
This is one of the technical terms that many fashion designers get confused.
For simplification, we can classify the color into 2 categories: Screen and Pigment
For screen, a very wide range of color can be displayed
- RGB
- CMYK(generated, not 100% exactly with the real pigment)
- Spot Color(generated, not 100% exactly with the real pigment)
- HSV
- Lab Color
Still, the screen can’t be display some kind of color, like florescence and luminous color
For pigment, we have
- Spot color, which is formed by mixing different chemical (PANTONE or some other color palette)
- CMYK, very common in normal color-printed, mixing Cyan, magenta, yellow and black by dots to form different color
So, we normally use RGB color mode when displaying on the screen, and CYMK, spot color for printout, and spot color for textile.
Color Trend Posts [Updated 15/02/10]
Fashiontribes
Fashion Trendsetter
Color Sizzle
Fashionising
SICO
Color Research
Idee
Select a color, and it can find the respective photo for you.
Color Generator
4096 Color Wheel
Color Explorer
Color Hunter
Big Huge Labs: Color Palette Generator
Color Blender
Color Scheme Designer
DeGraeve
Color Wizard
Color Jack
ColorMunki
Colorlovers
ColoRotate
kuler
Stripe Generator
Aviary
COPASO
If you have any more color resources, please let me know.
