Color Theory/ Hue/ Color Value

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Color Theory

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is the study and practice of a set of principles used to understand the logical relationships between color and light in our visual experience

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Aristotle

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The main color hues are white, yellow, orange, pink, green, brown, and brown.
He proposed that all hues come from black and white

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Leonardo De Vinci

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Assigned: White, yellow, green, blue, red, and black as the simple primary colors
Concluded that complementary hues intensify when placed next to each other- Theory of Simple Perspective Contrast

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Sir Issac Newton

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Created the first color wheel
He discovered that as a ray of light passes and is bent, or refracted, through a prism it is broken into an array of hues: Red, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

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Moses Harris

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Theorized that primary colors were: Red, Yellow, and Blue
Secondary colors: Orange, Green, and Violet
Mixed with whites to show tints and with black to show shadows

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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He was the first to study the function of the eye and its interpretation of color, rather than the properties of light.
He created a color triangle that contained primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.

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Phillip Otto Runge

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Created a 3 dimensional color sphere that consists of 9 hues
Hues mixed with black = shade
Hues mixed with white = tint

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J.C. Maxwell

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Theory of additive color.
Created a color triangle

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Michel Eugebe Chevreul

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Develops the Theory of Simultaneous Contrast- Colors look different when placed in different combinations or different colors.
Different colors make you feel certain ways

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Ogden Rood

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Every color has 3 dimensions= hue, luminosity (value), purity (saturation)

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Albert Munsell

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Developed the Language of color using the 3 dimensions: Hue, Value, and Chroma
Assigned a numbering code to these variables known as the Munsell Color System
His Color Tree represents the gradations of value along the vertical axis

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Johannes Itten

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Believed that gradations lead to chromatic unity. He organized the color spectrum as we know it today, showing tints and shades of each color

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Josef Albers

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Best known for his work on Color Relationships known as the Theory of Color Relativity

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Faber Birren

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Proposed a harmony of colors

Elements of harmony
Harmony of adjacent
Harmony of opposites
Harmony of split-compliments
Harmony of triads
Harmony of dominant tint

The first color theorist to recognize the human biological and psychological responses to color.

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List the harmony of colors

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Elements of harmony
Harmony of adjacent
Harmony of opposites
Harmony of split-compliments
Harmony of triads
Harmony of dominant tint

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Hue

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The name of a particular color

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Value

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The lightness or darkness of a color

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Intensity

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The brightness of a color

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Hue has a

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temperature

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Warm colors

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(advance, active, exciting, and cheerful)- Red, orange, and yellow

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Cool Colors

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(recede, sedate, calming, and mysterious) - Blue, green, and violet

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Every hue can be made cool or warm by mixing it with a little of its

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adjacent hue

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what are free of hues

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neutrals

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shades

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base + black

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tone

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base + gray

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tints

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base + white

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A (what) shows a full range of values from white to black. It can be neutral or of a hue.

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value scale

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theory of relativity

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values appear different against other values