Colorful World
The Anatomy Of Colour
Signals
Of all the colors, yellow gives the strongest signal. Red must be brightened to approach the light reflection of pure yellow. Blue must be brightened even more to reach the pure yellow brightness.
Words to describe colors
To describe a color tone is frequently used words such as hue and value. In general, they describe the content of a color in color, white and black. Words such as brightness, grayness, muted and broken is also used to describe a color tone.
The Secret Lives of Color
Forsius Color circle
The arrangement of the color spectrum in a circle is generally attributed to Newton, but already in writings from 1611 by the Swede Forsius one encounters the colors arranged in a circle, that is almost 100 years before Newton did.
Raindrops
Raindrops act as small prisms that breaks the daylight and together produce a rainbow.
Colour Hunting
Goethe
When the eye sees a colour it is immediately excited and it is its nature, spontaneously and of necessity, at once to produce another, which with the original colour, comprehends the whole chromatic scale.
- Goethe, Theory of ColoursIsaac Newton
In the 17th century, Isaac Newton analyzed the composition of light. In a dark room, he sent a thin beam of daylight through a glass prism. The prism broke the daylight in a range of colors from red to violet, the so-called color spectrum. The order of the colors remained constant – red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. Newton operated with a seventh color between blue and violet, which is called indigo, a warm dark blue color. Today, it is common to operate only with the six colors, also called spectral colors.
Inspiring book
Color vs. Colour
Color and Colour are diffrent spellings of the same word. The both mean exactly the same thing and both are correct. Color is the preferred spelling in American English, and Colour is preferred in all other English-speaking parts of the world. The word has its roots in the Latin word color.
I use color most by default, but visually i thing colour looks better.Color Quote
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
– John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice (1851-3)Color circle couple
Blue
According to color psychology, blue is associated with trustworthiness and reliability. Dark shades of blue in particular are linked with authority and intelligence; midnight blue’s deep appearance is particularly likely to make this impression.
Midnight blue projects sophistication and elegance. Its linked with formal occasions and royalty means it conveys confidence, power and authority, while its deep hue can also come across as dark and mysterious.Colorful world
A collection of knowledge, quotes and inspiration about colors. Color theory and the knowledge behind it is something that has preoccupied me for many years and now I want to gather some of this. Both old knowledge and new I still come across. This is in it’s beginning and more will come over time. But now it started. To see about a specifik color press the tag and all these will show.
