VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS: colour theory: pt 2

We looked at colour again, but with coloured card. With larger squares and smaller ones.

Also experimented with ways of laying the colours out on the square, too see if this affected the colour change at all.

With this image, it shows that the yellow stands out the most, compared to the red, which sits behind with the blue and green. This is because the yellow is closer to white and the others are darker, so due to the contrast, the yellow looks much brighter.

I found that when there was a black background, the black made the colour stand out more. Made it brighter, compared to when some colours were on a white background.

For example this yellow on black really pops. It leaves a 'halo' effect around the edges as it is so vibrant. Black and yellow, is usually seen as 'danger' and you can see why this is so.

There is another example of how black really effects the colour, by making it bright and stand out.

When yellow is against white, its difficult to look at and almost merges.

As well with the black background, the white is much easier to see, as the yellow has changed slightly due to the black.

Yellow is a difficult background colour, as it is close to white. It makes it difficult to look at when another colour is laid on top.

Complimentary colours sit well together, for example, the red and green. And the yellow is the brightest and stands out.

However, the blue on red isn't as easy to look at, and the edge vibrates. On the second image, the yellow still stands out and doesn't sit back with the red, but neither does the blue.

What I found interesting in the session, was ways the colours changed depending where they sat with each other.. for example, with red, green and blue. Changing the background colour and the small squares around changes the way you read it, yet they are the same colour.

Having the yellow on a blue background makes the yellow stand out much more, rather than having the blue on a yellow. This is the same as yellow on green.

I think they all sit good together. This is because blue and yellow make green, so it works well.

I did the same with orange, yellow and red.. again, when you mix the 2 primary colours together, you create orange, so this works in a similar way to the blue, green and yellow.