On Tuesday we began to study colour theory. The week before we collected 5x Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Orange, Violet coloured objects. On Tuesday we laid all of these out in a massive colour wheel that stretched around studio 4. This was accompanied my a workshop which helped us understand colour theory especially regarding the use of Tone, Hue and Saturation and colours relationship to physics and human biology.
We split up into small groups and were assigned a colour to work with. I was assigned to red and we selected 10 items from the red area of the spectrum based on variations in Saturation, Shade and Tint. We then used a series of Pantone swatches to find the pantone value of each items colour. Here are some examples:
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| Pantone 208m |
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| Pantone 201c |
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| Pantone 186c |
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| Pantone 187c |
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| Pantone 1788c |
This made me appreciate the need for Pantone, a universal way to distinguish colour! Ensuring designers, printers, web-page coders etc are all singing from the same hymn sheet as it were.
