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Color Personality Winners and Losers

April 22, 2014 4 Comments

Curious about what color came out on top?

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CIL Paint How to Use The Master Palette

April 21, 2014 No Comments

Hue Family NN in The Master Palette.

Color Overtones Review

April 18, 2014 2 Comments

Salud! Overtone is a color bias toward one side or another.

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A Color Point of View – Got Perspective?

April 16, 2014 No Comments

Be choosy about your Color Point of View.

I've mentioned several times that old dead guys have informed and influenced my Color Point of View (CPOV). Old dead guys that left behind theories that are still applicable in today's colorimetry. A quick word about theory. It would be naive to write off all color theory as just a hunch or half-baked methodology. "In popular usage, a theory is just a vague and fuzzy sort of fact. But to a scientist a theory is a conceptual framework that explains existing facts and predicts new ones."1 And sound conceptual frameworks is the magical stardust viable color order systems are made of. Hermann von Helmholtz (HvH) could be classified as one of those not naive scientists. He's credited with the etymology of the term "overtone"2. Too cool, right? It gets even better and more interesting when you consider that Helmholtz is also credited with introducing the concept of hue, saturation and brightness. A key colorimetric concept still used to this day. " His famous "Manual of Psychological Optics" appeared between 1856 and 1867, with the English translation appearing 60 years later to world acclaim. Here, Helmholtz introduces the three variables which are still used to characterise a colour: hue, saturation and brightness. He was the first to unequivocally demonstrate that the colours which Newton had seen in his spectrum are different from colours applied to a white base using pigments. The spectral colours shine more intensely and possess greater saturation. They are mixed additively, whereas pigments are mixed subtractively. In each case a different set of rules governs their combination."3 HvH Coined the term overtone AND came up with hue, saturation and brightness - amazing! Overtone emerged from Helmholtz's foray into harmonics. Another resource that links harmonics, divine geometry and color together is Michael Todd Sandborn's "The Origin of Color Theory, Book of Origins - Volume 2" . It's about 140 pages. Forewarning, skinny book but NOT a quick read. Hermann von Helmholtz is a scientist you should know if you're wanting to further develop your color knowledge base. The more you learn about him you might even choose to incorporate a little HvH into your CPOV too. Way back in October of 2013 I posted this downloadable mind-mapping worksheet called "My Color Point of View". Here it is again just in case you want to explore what you CPOV looks like on paper. 1 - http://skepticx.myweb.uga.edu/skep_1.html 2 - https://archive.org/stream/onsensationston00elligoog#page/n50/mode/2up 3 - http://www.colorsystem.com/?page_id=812&lang=en

Etymology of Color Overtones

April 13, 2014 No Comments

Where did the term overtone come from?

Color Overtone Example

How to Master Overtones in Color Systems

April 11, 2014 No Comments

Mastering color undertones and overtones can be challenging.