For artists and designers looking for new strategies for choosing color combinations.
In my experience, I’ve found that the traditional color schemes (complementary colors, triads, split complements, analogous colors, and so on) were very limiting, and often resulted in color combinations I wasn’t happy with. I know a lot of you have experienced this too. It messes with your head — it makes you think that maybe you’re just not good at choosing colors.
So, after some research I’ve done into color, I put together this lesson to help others find a better way. In April 2022, I went live for over an hour and a half to teach a course in choosing colors.
Due to recent interest, I decided to edit and upload this condensed version. The original is filled with Q&A and interacting with participants (some of which is valuable), but also lots of stumbling around and “umms” and pauses… This version distills all the most important information into 35 minutes.
Topics include:
- conceptualizing a colorspace based in color opponency
- how hue is defined
- the reasoning behind traditional color schemes
- the limitations of traditional color schemes
- the flawed nature of planning hue contrasts in RYB colorspace
- how to explore new color combinations
- Frank Morley Fletcher’s hue interval contrast approach
- Amy Sawyer’s chroma contrast approach
- How to harmonize any colors through proportion
If you’d still like to view the original, full-length stream, it’s here:
https://youtube.com/live/h8Bi7EgxrAs