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    The document discusses color theory, describing the emotional impacts of different colors like warm colors eliciting optimism and cool colors representing calmness. It examines the properties of common colors such as red stimulating the heart rate and black conveying authority. The text also explains color concepts including saturation, value, and the RGB and CMYK color models used in displays and printing.

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    Color Theory

    Nathan Eckhoff

    Color helps bring out emtion and diffrent moods

    Warm Colors

    Cool Colors
    Innocence, Purity, Summer Color, Sterility
    Peaceful, ranquil, Depressing, Loyalty
    Green: Nature, Calming, Fertility
    Dark Green: Masculine, Conservative, Implies
    Cheerful, Attention Getter, Optimistic Color
    Royalty, Luxury, Wealth, Feminine, Romantic, Artificial
    Brown: Solid, Reliable
    Light Brown: Genuineness, Sad, Wistful
    Authority, Power, Makes people appear thinner,
    Villains often wear black
    Emotionally intense color, Stimulates a faster heartbeat,
    Color of love, Red clothes makes the wearer appear
    heavier

    Saturation

    How bright a color is

    Value

    How light or dark an object is

    Red

    Yellow
    Magenta

    Green
    Cyan

    Blue

    Understanding how the RGB model works is understanding how to shape


    colors together.

    Cyan

    Green

    Magenta

    Red

    Yellow

    Understanding how the CMYK model works means understanding


    what colors show up on the monitor and what colors get printed.

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