SEC20/WK2: Colour Theory and Application

Colour Theory and Application.

Discuss Colour Theory according to the way you understand it.

Colour Theory in graphics design is a concept that addresses the way we use and combine colours to get visually pleasing colours that communicate the appropriate emotions that hamonises with the massege potrayed by the graphic.

In colour theory, colours are grouped into primary colours, this primary colour can be combined to create secondary colours, and the secondary colours can make a third level of colours known as tertiary colours.
When these colours are arranged in a circuler wheel that shows the relationship between primary, secondary, tertiary colours and their intermediate colours, such an arrangement is called a colour wheel.

The colours on the wheel have properties like hue, saturation, and values. A hue is the unadultrated nature of the colour. Saturation is the intensity or how bright the colour is while the shade is something that makes the colour darker like adding black while tint is adding white and making it lighther while the degree of lightness or darkness is the value

To avoid combining colours indiscriminately, the concept of a colour harmony was created, which are formulas used with the 12 basic colour hus on a colour wheel to create an endless collection of colour combinations that looks well balanced and vesually appealing to the eyes.

The formula for getting colours that will walk well on a single design is known as a colour scheme:
- Monochromatic (single colour)
- Complementary (opposite colours)
- Analogous (adjacent colours)
- Triadic (equidistant colours)

Choose "Two" from the colour scheme discussed, briefly talk about it and demonstrate with two examples each showing how to combine colours using that scheme.

Analogous colours:

This are colours that are close neighbours on the colour wheel. Any three colours that are side-by-side will be a good example of analogous colors:

^{_{My analogous colours here are green, green-yellow and green-blue}}
In this design, I am using green and the colours to its left and right on the colour wheel for my analogous colours.

^{_{My analogous colours here are red, red-pink and red-yellow}}

Complementary colours

These are highly contrasting colours located opposite each other on the colour wheel. Any two colours at the opposit ends are complimentary.

The font and background colour are complimentary colours, while fhe font is pinky, the background is greenish

Demonstrate how to get your colour Hex from external object using your Canva design app.

If you would love to edit a picture and would love to maintain the colour scheme when adding some graphic elements to it. It bebomes important to find the colour Hex so as to get the exact colour hue.

Image Source

Load the Canva App to start the process.
Select the new canva button and select the 1080 by 1080 Instagram size

_{_{Loading Canva}}	_{_{Select New}}	_{_{Select Gallery}}

From gallery, select the picture you will love to use.
Select the add to page option.
Click to select the canvas area

_{_{select picture}}	_{_{Activate canvas}}	_{_{Select colour picker}}

Select the area of the picture to reveal the hex code
The selected colour appears on the canvas
you can now see the hex code below

_{_{Select the colour}}	_{_{canvas change}}	_{_{the hex code}}

Finally demonstrate how to get the colours behind the hex codes below.

a. #f3ca20
b. #000000
c. #ef9d10f

Load the Canva App to start the process.
Select the new canva button.
Select the 1080 by 1080 Instagram size.

_{_{Loading Canva}}	_{_{Select New}}	_{_{select canvas}}

Select colour
select the colour wheel
Type in the hex code

_{_{click on colour}}	_{_{select colour wheel}}	_{_{type in hex}}

_{_#f3ca20}	_{_#000000}	_{_#ef9d10}

The last hex code was more than six characters, so I removed the last F

Conclusion
This weeks lesson has been an eye opener into the world of colours, I am inviting @udyliciouz, @eliany and @dequeen to try their hands on the canva app, following this steps...