DIMENSIONS OF COLOUR

DIMENSIONS OF COLOUR
• The perception of color is often described by
referring to three dimensions of the color :
hue, value, and Intensity/chroma.
 Dimensions of colour
1. Hue:- this refers to the colour
quality of the light and
corresponds to the colour
names
2. Intensity / chroma :- This refers
to the brightness or dullness of a
colour.
• Colours at full intensity are very
striking and brilliant means they
are bright.
• A colour that is not bright is
characterised as dull or weak.
 VALUE
• This describes the lightness or
darkness of a colour.
• There are total of nine values,
ranging all the way from white
to black.
• Values can be changed by
adding white to lighten a
pigment or by adding black to
darken them
• The value that is lighter is
Called as tint and which is
darker is called as a shade.
 Warm and cool colours
• One of the most important factors of colour to be
considered in interior decoration is their relative
warmth or coolness.
• Warm colors — such as red, yellow, and orange;
evoke warmth because they remind us of things like
the sun or fire.
• Cool colors — such as blue, green,
and purple (violet); evoke a cool feeling because they
remind us of things like water or grass.
• The colour wheel can
be divided into two
halves.
• The colours to the left
side represent the
warm colours.
• The colours to the right
side represent cool
colours.
WARM AND COOL COLOUR
ADVANCING AND RECEDING COLOURS.
• Advancing colours tend
to be warmer colours
such as red, red-violet,
orange, yellow and
yellow-orange.
Advancing colours are
the more dominant
colours within an
interior and advance
“into” the space.
• They make a large room
look compact.
• Receding color
definition is - any of
various colors (as
greens, blues, violets,
and their variations)
that tend to appear
farther from the eye .
• It makes a small room
make larger.
 PRANG’S COLOUR SYSTEM
• It basically deals with
the 12 colours
represented on a colour
wheel.
• 3 primary , 3 secoandry
and 6 tertiary.
 Colour wheel
• A colour wheel is a
visual representation of
colors arranged
according to their
chromatic relationship.
Primary, secondary,
tertiary
 Primary colour
• Primary colour:- These
are colours that cannot
be created through the
mixing of other colours.
They are colours in their
own right. The three
primary colours are
yellow, blue and red.
 Secondary colour & Tertiary
colours
• secondary colour:- It is a
colour made by mixing
two primary colours in a
given colour space.
• Tertiary colours :- when a
primary colour and
secondary colour are
mixed in equal amounts
then tertiary colours are
formed
TERTIARY COLOURS
 Munsell colour system
• The Munsell color
system : in this the
dimensions are shown
upon a sphere.
• Values , in neutral grey,
are shown upon a
vertical pole,
representing the axis of
the sphere.