Color Harmony -Op/104 [With CDROM]

by Bride M. Whelan and Mark Greenelsh

Book Overview

The color combinations in Color Harmony are a click away with Rockport's new Palette Picker software. Interactively search for color combinations under words like "Hot," "Friendly," and "Analogous,"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564964019
• ISBN13: 9781564964014
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Best book on color combinations, must-have for desingers

This is the best book on color I have found. It is a must have for anyone who has ever been confused about matching colors and creating the right mood. Though I was already fairly confident working with color, this book helped me a great deal by letting me see a wide variety of color combinations together. The book begins by discussing the color wheel. This includes the facets of color such as hot, cold, light, dark, pale, bright, warm and cool as well as a great explanation of all the different color schemes. It is divided into over 20 different themes including romantic, friendly, earthy, fresh, calm, traditional, professional, magical, classic, tropical and energetic. For each of these themes a set of color schemes including monochromatic, primary, complementary, split-complementary, analogous, spilt, clash and neutral is shown. A brief tips section for using the themes in graphic design, interiors and fine art is also provided. In the back of the book there is a process color conversion chart that gives the CMYK values for each of the 106 colors used. Swatches that you can cut out are included. This is very useful for graphic designers. A very helpful and versatile CD is included with this book as well. It allows you sort by color scheme or theme. You can also pick a color and then see all the color schemes that will work with it. Each color scheme is shown in several different forms and against black, white and gray. One of a color scheme's colors can be made bigger to be used as a background to the others as well. Colors can be saved and added to custom lists and exported to popular graphics programs like Photoshop and PageMaker. The color DIC number as well as RGB and CMYK values are also given.The program does have some minor limitations. It can only search one aspect at a time. For instance you can't search for a rich theme with yellow. Also, if you search by color or color scheme you can't find out which theme set it originally belonged too. I found it a little hard to install and use at first as well. This book and Color Harmony Workbook are pretty much identical in content. However, this one is smaller and contains a CD while the other has tear-out swatches. Because I was more interested in decorating my home the workbook was more useful to me. For a web or graphic designer using computers a lot this version will probably be of more help. If I had to select only one color book, this one or Color Harmony Workbook would be my first choice.

Color Harmony 2 : Guide to Creative Color Combinations

This is a very good color reference book if you're in a hurry for some attractive color combinations and suffering from mental block. It has been very handy in web page creation also.