DIMENSIONS OF COLOUR
Chromatic Value = HUE + TONE + SATURATION
- Standard colour wheel shown before has a STANDARD CHROMATIC VALUE.
- All of the names that we give colours, for example Crimson Red/Lemon Yellow are known as the HUE.
- Saturation and tones of colour are perceptions of lightness o the colour.
- Saturation affects the brightness of the colour and effects the hue (e.g. how yellow the yellow is)
- Often makes the colour more grey from desaturation.
- As colours are desaturated, their Chromatic Value drops.
- High chromatic colours have high luminance.
- Lower chromatic colours have 'shades' of the luminant colours.
- Increasing the amount of light the colour reflects is creating a 'tint'.
- A tint has a lower Chromatic Value.
- By combining the desaturation of shade and tint, you create 'tones'.
- When looking at colours, the saturation is the main element in which we perceive.
- Perception of colour becomes difficult when you start to mix other colours into the spectrum and compare the different saturations of the colours.
- Colour is SUBJECTIVE
"PANTONE is your best friend"
- The Pantone System is an objective system in a subjective world.
Coated Pantone: reflects light
Uncoated Pantone: absorbs light
- The Pantone code is the CHROMATIC VALUE of the colour.
- You can even specify how much of a tint you wish to use!
- If you want to work with colour in design, it has to be SYSTEMATIC.
- Pantone is a Universal Colour System.
