It's interesting to learn about Primary color, Second colors, Tertiary colors. etc. How some colors work better with other colors. There doesn't seem to be that much difference in a printer's color wheel vs. a painter color wheel. It looks like it has to do with the brightness of the color or chroma. Colors that compliment each other are at there best when they are fully saturated. Red and green is opposite of each other if you put them together graphically it doesn't look that good because of the brightness of the colors together. There is more light when viewing on a computer. Color saturation is very important to know in order to gain the right blend of colors. Whenever you are putting together a site. You will want to use colors that will be appealing to your eyes. You will not want to use anything that will be to bright.
In T.V. production before any event or show that goes on the air we have to check color bars so the program has the correct video levels. The colors displayed on color bars are; magenta, cyan, red, green, blue, and yellow. In order to get the proper video levels we use equipment called the waveform monitor and vector scope. Both the waveform monitor and vector scope help with the brightness or luminance of the video. Does anyone know of any tools/equipment you can use when creating a site to help with color. I know you can read online at various site to find out what will work for color and what won't. I was wondering if there is anything out there similar to a validator when checking for HTML errors on your site, but for color only.
This is going to sound silly, but I had no idea that the reason all the the colorful bars popped up on t.v. was to check color levels. Learn something new every day! I was probably out of the loop because I didn't learn much about broadcast or television during my undergrad, but that is a fun fact. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure about validation for HTML but I use Pantone number booklets at work to check print vs. monitor colors.