Showing posts with label color. Show all posts
Showing posts with label color. Show all posts

Friday, October 28, 2011

Color contrast and balance

Here's something I've been kind of dreading... color exercises! It's turned out to not be so bad, I guess because everything looks good to me. It may not be a problem until I get grades back. What am I talking about? I'm red-green colorblind.

This exercise was on color contrast. The words of "contrast" were white and we had to change it to a color that contrasted well with the background color. I mostly used complementary hues with the opposite with the opposite brightness or saturation.


This other exercise was to incorporate balance into the design. The left large box was a color and we had to balance it by changing the smaller boxes on the right side. First I tried monochromatic schemes, and then I also tried to just change the hue while keeping the same saturation and brightness. However, sometimes that doesn't work... this one took a lot of fiddling around. I will probably look at this tomorrow and want to change something!