19 Color Theory
A set of rules or guiding principles that relate to how hues interact in a space.
Further Reading
Hella Jongerius, I Don’t Have a Favourite Colour. (gestalten, 2016).
Many attempts have been made to establish methodologies to evaluate the advantages of certain color combinations. Very early on, color wheels or color spheres were engaged to visually communicate the associations and range of colors, and their relationships to each other. In his Opticks of 1704, Isaac Newton split white light into seven colors—orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, and red—arranged on a disk in proportionate slices such that the spinning of the disk would result in the color white. Newton’s objectification ...
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