![]() ![]() All three colors of light- red, green and blue- mix to create white light. Red and green light combine together to create yellow, blue and green add to produce cyan, and red and blue add together to produce magenta. RGB color model is an additive color model as red, green and blue are added in various combinations to produce a wide spectrum of colors. RGB Color Model: If you recall your school class, there are three primary colors of light- red, green and blue. Here’s how the two colors are represented on the Color Wheel: ![]() Tourist ads often show beaches and expanse of blue sky to tempt us to ditch our stressful lives for a while and run to those destinations for peace and relaxation. Violet, blue and green are cool colors and have a calming effect on us. These colors create a very strong, dynamic mood and are perfect for those presentations where you want your audience to feel excited, happy and hungry (Restaurants have been using this trick since ages to lure us and gulp mouthfuls).Ĭool Colors, on the other hand, tend to recede from us. Red, yellow and orange are warm colors and look as if they are approaching us. Warm Colors, as the name suggests, remind us of sunlight and heat. Tone: Here you add gray to a color to create different tones of that color. You add white to a pure hue to create different tints. Tint: The lighter version of a color is called tint. Different shades of a color can be created by adding varying amounts of black to a color. Shade: The darker version of a color is called a shade. On the basis of intensity, we divide colors into Dull Colors and Vivid Colors. A 100% yellow is completely saturated but as soon as you add white to it, it looks duller. A completely saturated color is 100% of that color. Saturation / Intensity: When we talk about intensity, we talk about the purity of a color i.e. So, in terms of value, color can be divided into Light Colors and Dark Colors. Value: Value is the lightness or darkness of a color as measured on a gray scale. We will get to that once we have finished all the color terminologies. On the basis of hue, we divide colors into Warm Colors and Cool Colors. So don’t have a confused look if a designer happens to use the word hue in some conversation. Hue: Hue is the color itself, the name that we give to a color. Here are the terms most commonly used to describe the physical properties of a color: (This will help you impress the handful of beautiful designers next time you are conversing with them □ That’s why, a brief knowledge of color harmonies and the color wheel can go a long way in avoiding such embarrassments.īefore we help you put Isaac Newton’s color wheel into action, it’s best that you also know the meaning of some color terminologies that designers loosely throw around in their talks. In defense of the presenter, choosing colors that look good together is easier said than done. More of such true examples can be shown here, some worse than others, but in our readers’ health interests it is best that we avoid it. This was the exact color scheme and design of the slide, only random text has been added in place of the presenter’s content): The rest of us rely on our judgement to pick slide colors, which sometimes leads to horrible disasters like the slide below ( This is a recreation of an actual slide, not made out of some wild imagination. Very rarely or never, unless you are a professional designer of course. ![]() How many times have you used this circle called a Color Wheel to choose the best colors for your presentation? ![]()
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