Color

Introduction to Color

• History of the Color Wheel
• Color Meanings (our website)
• The Effect of Color - A brief look at how implementing color into our lives affects us and others.
• ​Sessions - Color Theory - This video is a little dry but does give a pretty good explanation of how color schemes can be constructed using a color wheel.
• The Meaning Of Color - Color Theory For Designers part 1
• Color Vision - Eye Physiology
• 7 Facts about color 

Creating Color Schemes

• Color - Produced by Adobe this site has a mini feature in many of the Adobe products. With it you can look at color schemes created by others and posted on a forum or create and post your own. It provides RGB, CMYK, HSV, and LAB color information.
• ColorHunt - a social website just for color palettes!
• Color Scheme Designer 3 - This site is geared towards creating color schemes for websites and will show you examples of what a color scheme will look like as a web page.
• ​50 Best Color Sites for Designers - A collection of awesome sites for designing color schemes
• Design Seeds - Select  a color, then retrieves a photo and relating color palette options for that color.

Color Associations

• Symbolism of Color in Culture
• Color Meaning - A slightly more expanded look at color associations
• Colors Across Cultures - Essentially a PDF book. Very dry, not many pictures, but very informative. Color associations per country begins on page 16.
• Color Emotion Guide - (Pictured to the left) How widely known corporations utilize color psychology to create their logos. Image Credit: TheLogoCompany.net

Cool Color Stuff

• Learn Make-Up Color Theory Using The Color Wheel With Robert Jones (video 15:00)
• ColorBay.com - Learn about color and composition, for oils, watercolor, photography, etc. Easy to follow steps. These principles apply to all the arts, and to all artists. These free lessons will guide you into the art of painting landscapes, seascapes, animals, still lives, and portraits today! All the lessons are accompanied by practical examples.
• Multicolor Search Lab by TinEye labs - A search engine that will find images on Flikr from the colors you pick "We extracted the colors from 20 million Creative Commons images on Flickr to make the images searchable by color." They say.

This page was updated February 22, 2021