Chapter 1
Your Color Journey
IN THIS CHAPTER
Considering the history, science, and language of color
Understanding color's relativity, contrast, and dynamism
Working with palettes and conveying meaning
Exploring systems of color and different mediums
Discovering ten colorful careers and ten ways to work with color
This chapter is a colorful roadmap that briefly describes the main ideas you find throughout the book. My hope is to provide a foundation for your journey into color — and to whet your appetite! I also want to build in some redundancy; if you’re like me, reading a thing twice never hurts.
Color is vast. The human eye perceives a seemingly infinite number of colors. Some colors are strikingly different while others are different in extraordinarily subtle ways. The world of color is an ocean of different perceptions, with incalculable possible combinations and juxtapositions. To work with color is to confront the vastness of color.
For a glimpse into the vastness of color ...
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