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Color for Designers: Ninety-five things you need to know when choosing and using colors for layouts and illustrations
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Color for Designers: Ninety-five things you need to know when choosing and using colors for layouts and illustrations

by Jim Krause
September 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
4h 22m
English
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Chapter 10. Inspiration and Education

68 Seeing Color

As truly amazing as our brains are, they simply can’t notice everything around us at all times. We’d probably experience the human equivalent of a serious system error if our brains tried to visually and mentally assess even a fraction of the things—and the details within those things—that pass through our field of vision during even one minute of a day.

That being the case, if you really want to start noticing, and learning from, attractive instances of color in the world around you—as designers and artists would be wise to do—it’d be a good idea to let your brain know that it has your permission to devote the time and head-space needed for these practices.

Encouraging your brain to increase ...

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