INTERIOR COLOR BY DESIGN - BASIC COLOR THEORY II

COLOR TEMPERATURE

Colors are ofren referred to as either warm or cool.
The colors on the color wheel are easy to separate into warm and cool
colors .Red, orange, and yellow are considered warm while green,
blue, and purple are described as cool.
As colors become less pure, the terms warm and cool become more useful as relative
companions rather than absolute descriptions.


HOW COLORS MIX

ADDITIVE COLOR


Natural light contains all the colors of the spectrum.
By breaking light down into its component parts, or spectral colors,
it is possible to combine and mix the individual colors to form
new ones.
Additive color is the process of mixing colored light.
The most common aplication of this can be found in theater lighting.
For example, a red light overlapping a green light produces a yellow light.
Colored pigments, however, behave very differently than colored light
when combined or mixed.
The primary colors of light are red, green,and blue;
the primary colors of pigments are red, yellow and blue.
When all three primary colors of light are combined, they from white light, and,
when thwo colors of light are added together they always produce a color of lighter value.
The principles of additive color are most critical in theater or other dramatic
lighting.
For the purposes of inerior color design , it is important to understand the effect
of artificial lighting on the perception of color.
For example, incandescent light brings out the warm colors of an inerior while fluorescent light emphasizes the color.