From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Color
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Color in context
- Like a word, a color has it's own properties. A kind of color meaning you might say. But its meaning imparts a message best like a word in some kind of context. We look at a particular color, we might describe it based on its relationships to the other colors around it in an image. And because it's affected by its surroundings, a color can look entirely different in a new context. Purple in one image can look like its secondary compliment green, in another context. Check out these squares of color. One looks green and the other looks purple, yes? If we take away the context, you can see that they are exactly the same color. That's because they are neutral colors, a blend of many other hues, and the surrounding green here make the purple in the color more visible. And the surrounding purple over here, make the green in the color more visible. You might wonder why color plays tricks with our eyes and exactly what is going on here. Color, like people, respond to their environment and…
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