Color scale

In celebration of the incredible extension of FF Good we created a A1 sized colour scale poster using four Pantone colours (Pantone Violet, Pantone Green, Pantone Orange 021 and Pantone 806) displaying all 96 styles. The design is a nod to Erik van Blokla...

I created these poster designs over the summer. They are free to download and print for educational purposes. The posters have been created in a large format but can be printed at any size. I created these for my own classrooms where I teach video production, graphic design, web design and digital photography. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the download link... if you repost please attribute credit. Typography Poster: Color Theory Poster A: Color Theory Poster B: Elements of…

Illustrations from the 19th-century physics text books of Amédée Guillemin.

Value study

Another hard-to-find, but really fascinating book. The author guides one step by step in a process of identifying favorite color palettes. The book has a definite Japanese feel, and once in a while you’ll run into a word used in a way you wouldn’t have expected (I would guess because it’s been translated), but overall […]

A free in depth 6 part lesson on Color Theory, applications and definitions by Artist and Teacher Sheri Doty.

Delicious!

Hand drawn colored pencils pattern with scales on black paper

This is a Value Scale, also known as a Grey Scale. The center color that runs horizontally through the scale is a medium color grey. Look how it changes when it is next to the other values.

Explore impressionisticimages' 5 photos on Flickr!

Munsell Colour System - links to a PDF version.

Chroma is like LRV (Light Reflectance Value). A Chroma scale shows you how strong, clean or weak, dirty a color looks. Understanding Chroma will save time! #landofcolor #campchroma #color #colorscience #understandcolor #colorstrategy

Color wheels are essential for artists while they are painting and/or studying color theory. They can be really basic like the one above, or far more interesting and ascetically pleasing to the eye like the rest of the ones I'll include. Besides being a tool for color study, people will in fact argue that color wheels serve no real purpose. But what what if you got creative with it? Thought outside the box, or in this case, the circle? Well, then it can transform into an art piece itself…