The elements of color

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• bigmanwalter · Jul 15, 2016 · Recommends

  …different colours have different weights. Yellow is perceptually bigger than purple. So if you have two equal sized dots, one yellow one purple, the yellow will appear larger. Most of this comes from The Elements of Color https://www.amazon.ca/Elements-Color-Johannes-Itten/dp/04712... . Im sure many other books cover it but this one is considered a classic.

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• d5tryr · Feb 26, 2012 · Recommends

  …guy for colour theory, both these books are fantastic: The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color http://www.amazon.com/Art-Color-Subjective-Experience-Object... The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten Based on His Book the Art of Color http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Color-Treatise-System-Johanne...

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• msutherl · Dec 2, 2012 · Recommends

  …Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art is a beautiful manifesto on art, but contains a very interesting theory of color: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1619491532/ref=as_li_qf_sp_... Itten's The Elements of Color is the classic text on color: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471289299/ref=as_li_qf_sp_... Albers' Interaction of Color will teach you that colors are no absolute reference ponts – they interact with…

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• brudgers · Mar 2, 2016 · Mentions

  …colors that someone else picked. There are many resources on color theory, and they can help a person understand why some colors work together and what someone who knows what they are doing did. Itten's Elements of Color is the only formal book on color in my library. It's useful, but there are lots of other things out there. Color wheels are kind of cool and cheap: http://www.alvinco.com/Shop/Products.aspx?GID=5993…

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