This pocket-size version of Universal Principles of Colour presents 100 core concepts and guidelines that are critical to the successful use of colour.

Richly illustrated and easy to navigate, this comprehensive, cross-disciplinary overview of colour is organized alphabetically so that principles can be easily and quickly referenced. The book pairs clear explanations of every topic with visual examples of it applied in theory and in practice. For those interested in addressing a specific colour challenge or application problem, the principles are also indexed by pathways based on nine topics of color study: light, order, communication, object, mixture, application, observer, composition, and history.

Explore a diverse array of colour principles, including:

Additive Mixture
Bezold Effects
Harmony
Pointillism
Newton's Opticks
Rayleigh Scattering
Transparency Effect
Warm and Cool

Author: Stephen Westland and Maggie Maggio
Paperback
216 pages
12.7 x 12.7cm