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Contents

  1. Colour theory: understanding and working with colour

  2. Acknowledgement of Country

  3. About this book

  4. Versioning history

  5. Introduction: what is colour?

  6. 1. Colour theory: history and culture
  7. 1.1 History of colour theories

    1. Antiquity (c. 500 BCE to 300 CE)

    2. Middle Ages and Renaissance (c. 400 to 1600 CE)

    3. The Enlightenment (c. 1650 to 1800)

    4. Modern era (c. 1850 to 1980)

    5. Contemporary Colour Systems (c. 1930 – 2020+)

    6. Test yourself: history of colour theories

    7. References and resources: history of colour theories

  8. 1.2 Colour theory: cultural interpretations

    1. Colour psychology and physiology

    2. Colour symbolism in different cultures

    3. Colour and language

    4. Test yourself: cultural interpretations of colour

    5. References and resources: cultural interpretations of colour

  9. 1.3 Colour aesthetics

    1. Colour aesthetics in art and design

    2. Colour grading in photography and film

    3. Colour trends and palettes

    4. Test yourself: colour aesthetics

  10. 2. Colour theory: the visible spectrum
  11. 2.1 The physics of light and colour

    1. Light: electromagnetic radiation

    2. Optics 1: lenses and ocular devices

    3. Test yourself: electromagnetic spectrum, lenses and ocular devices

    4. Optics 2: electronic technologies and spectral analysis

    5. Why are things different colours?

    6. Test yourself: electronic technologies, spectral analysis and different colours

  12. 2.2 Colour in chemistry

    1. Spectrophotometry and colorimetry

    2. Metamerism - colour perception and matching

    3. Test yourself: is it illuminant or observer metameric failure?

    4. Luminescence

    5. Test yourself: what type of luminescence is this?

    6. Colour chemistry 1: animals that can change colour

    7. Colour chemistry 2: photography and chromatography

    8. Colour chemistry 3: universal indicator and diagnostic tests

    9. Colour chemistry 4: fireworks

    10. Test yourself: colour chemistry

  13. 2.3 The eye - how we see colour

    1. Anatomy of the human eye

    2. How the brain interprets colour information

    3. Colour blindness

    4. Vision difference: tetrachromacy and synesthesia

    5. Accessible colour

    6. How animals see colour

    7. Test yourself: the eye – how we see colour

  14. 3. Colour theory: working with colour
  15. 3.1 Additive and subtractive colour

    1. Additive and subtractive colour systems

    2. Additive and subtractive colours on the colour wheel

    3. How additive and subtractive colour works when printing a digital image

    4. Practical activities: mixing additive and subtractive colours

    5. Test yourself: is it additive colour or subtractive colour?

  16. 3.2 Colour systems: digital

    1. Colour gamuts and colour spaces

    2. How digital screens display colour

    3. What is Hexadecimal colour?

      1. #E86F1F

    4. Other RGB colour models

    5. How do digital images and videos display colour?

    6. Test yourself: colour systems – digital

  17. 3.3 Colour systems: printing

    1. Do I need to convert an RGB image to CMYK to print it?

    2. Process (CMYK) and Spot (Pantone) colour printing

    3. Colour management - what can go wrong?

    4. Test yourself: colour systems – printing

  18. 3.4 Colour systems: pigments and dyes

    1. Colour pigments: history and usage

    2. Mixing paint pigments

    3. Colour dyes: a (very) short history of dyes from around the world

    4. Colour dyes: methods and processes

    5. Test yourself: is this a feature of pigments or dyes?

    6. Colour dyes: synthetic colours and sustainability

    7. Special colours, controversial colours and interesting facts

    8. Problematic colours

  19. 3.5 Colour wheels and relationships

    1. Interactive colour wheel and colour relationships

    2. Properties of colours

    3. Test yourself: colour wheels and relationships

    4. Colour properties: tints, shades and tones - learning activity

    5. Colour properties: light to dark - learning activity

    6. Colour properties: monochrome (greyscale) - learning activity

    7. Colour relationships: bias colour scale - learning activity

    8. Colour charts - Pantone and Munsell systems

  20. Glossary

  21. List of Figures, Videos, and Tables

  22. Acknowledgements

  23. Download links