Color Theory

ARC 101

Introduction to Color

Prof. Dr. Cemal İnceruh

Dr. Dan Peak, UNT
Dr. Dan Peak, UNT
 What is Color?

“The appearance of objects or

Color: light sources described in terms of
the individual’s perception of
them, involving hue, brightness,
and saturation.”
 What is Color?
Hue: “The dimension of color referred to
a scale of perceptions ranging from
red through yellow, green, and blue,
and circularly back to red.”
 What is Color?

Brightness: “The dimension of color that

represents its similarity to one
of a series of achromatic colors
ranging from very dim to very
bright.”
 What is Color?

Saturation: “Degree of difference from a

grey of the same lightness or
brightness: vividness of hue.”
canlılık
• Secondary colors are the fusion of one primary and the next primary color. These
colors would be between primary and the next primary color.
• Tertiary colors are the fusion of one primary and one secondary color. These colors
would be between primary and secondary colors.
• Tint refers to a light value and is accomplished by adding white to the pure color on
the color wheel.
• Shade is a dark value and is created by adding black to the pure color on the color
wheel.
• Black, white and grey are neutrals.
 What is Color?
Where do you see the use of:
Hue, Saturation, Brightness ?

In the video
menu when
you try to
adjust the
color of you
TV set.
 What is Color?
Where do you see the use of:
Hue, Saturation, Brightness ?

In the color
palette menu
of your
computer’s
paint program
when you try
to adjust or
choose a color.
Painter’s Color Wheel
 But, Technology Uses other
Color Models
 Engineers developed the “Red, Green,
Blue” (RGB) model for early color
television screens..
 Printers developed the “Cyan, Yellow,
Magenta, blacK” (CYMK) model for early
color printing..
 These two models are still heavily used
today ….

Dr. Cemal İnceruh

 

Tamamlayıcı renkler
Complementary: color
schemes combine colors
directly across the color
wheel. For example, red
and green

benzer renkler
Analogous: color
schemes combine colors
include green, blue-
green, green-blue, blue
and violet blue.
 Color Relationships

Split Complementary
Ayrık Tamamlayıcı renkler

Triadic
Üçlü Tamamlayıcı renkler
 Color Relationships

Rectangular

Square
 Additive Color Model:
Red, Green, Blue (RGB)
(Additive Primary Colors)

Red Green Blue

 Additive (RGB) Colors

A large percentage of
the visible spectrum
can be represented by Red Green
mixing Red, Green,
and Blue (RGB)
colored light in various
proportions and
intensities. Where the
colors overlap, they
create cyan, magenta, Blue
and yellow.
 Subtractive Color Model:
Magenta, Yellow, Cyan, Black (CMYk)

Subtractive Primary Colors

Magenta Yellow Cyan

 Subtractive Color

Yellow
Red Yellow
Magenta

+ Cyan Red Green

Black
Black
Magenta
Blue Cyan
 Colors in Context

When the same color is used in different contexts

the perception of that color can change radically
(the center of both squares are 60% gray)
 Colors in Context
 Red in different contexts

 Three colors appear as four

Adjacent Colors Influence
Each Other
Dr. Dan Peak, UNT