Color Theory

This book focuses on the most important colors in art--red, blue, yellow, black, white, green, and gold--and looks at them through some 200 beautifully printed works.

Discover the strange, intriguing, and humorous stories of your favorite colors, the science behind them, and how they forever changed the courses of art and history.

Discussions on color harmony, complete with a vocabulary that enables in-depth understanding of hue, value, and saturation. Addresses issues involved when colors must be translated from one medium to another.

Colour's application to graphic design, illustration, painting, textile art, and textile design.

Examines the effective use of color in digital applications and 3D design work.

A survey of design and the applied arts, explored not by use, material, form or date - but by colour.

This manual, aimed at a broad spectrum of graphic design professionals, offers analyses of chromatic type specimens, instructions for multilayer type design, and applications across a range of print and digital media. From display fonts to running text, discover how color can give words expressive new possibilities.

A look at the skills a colour forecaster employs to draw a color palette together, often 18 to 24 months in advance of the selling season.
(Also in print: TT507 .S38 2012)

Divided into four thematic parts - solidarity, power, innovation, and desire - each section highlights the often violent, emotional, and complex histories of color in dress across geographical, temporal and cultural boundaries.

Follow global color authority Pantone on this vivid journey through the rich history of color in fashion. Favorite hues and their appearances across the decades are profiled in informative text and copiously illustrated by runway photos and archival images.

Guide for filmmakers toward making the right color selections for their films, and helps movie buffs understand why they feel the way they do while watching movies that incorporate certain colors.
(Also in print: PN1995.9.C546 B46 2005)

Study of the beginnings of color cinema. Traces the legacy of color history from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the cinema of the early twentieth century.
(Also in print: TR853 .Y86 2012)