For this week we went over colour and the importance of the use of colour. Colour can highlight, draw attention to important text, it can suggest masculinity or femininity, can be used as warnings such as on food or traffic lights.
A colour wheel is used to show basis of colour theory, as it shows the relationship between colours. There is 3 types of colours on the wheel, this includes primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary colours are red, blue and yellow. By mixing different amounts of these colours together can make every colour on the wheel. Secondary colours include orange, green and purple. These are made by mixing two primary colours together. And tertiary colours are colours that are made by mixing a primary and secondary colour together.
The relationships between colours also have different names. Colours opposite to eachother are called complimentry colours. These colours compliment eachother and look well together. Colours that are neighbours to eachouther are called Analogous. A colour with its shades and tints are called monochromatic.
Adobe fonts is a great tool to use when using these colour relationships. You can decide which relationship you want to use and the site gives you the colours which you can choose in that relationship. For example, below is an analogous colour relationship. The told shows which colours are within that.
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Additive and subtractive are ways of mixing colour. Subtractive colour is the more colour you add the less colour you see, whereas additive colour is the more colour you add the more colour you can see. Additive is created when adding coloured light to black while subtractivr is reflecting light off a surface.
A normal eye can see colour and different forms of light fine, however we perceive these colours differently which is why colour can be subjective and why everyone has different favourite colours. However, colour blindness is unfortunately quite common. There are a few different forms of colour blindness, deuteranopia, protanopia and tritanopia. There are lots of tests online you can take to ensure you are not colourblind.
It is important as a designer to ensure that you are trying meeting everyones needs with colour. With this colour blindness it may be hard for websites to target everyones type of vision and make it accessible. There are 3 different levels of rating this, the 3 A-levels. A, AA and AAA are the ratios that determine this accessibility. By meeting AAA the colour combinations used have enough contrast for those who are visually impaired to clealry distinugish the elements and layers they are seeing on their screen.
We were asked to complete a task using Adobe colour create a sort of menu or home screen of a website. We had to use Monochromatic, analogous and complimentary colours for each. These are the screens I created.
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