Book description
Given its importance in analysing and influencing the world around us, an understanding of colour is a vital tool in any design process. Colour design provides a comprehensive review of the issues surrounding the use of colour, from the fundamental principles of what colour is to its important applications across a vast range of industries.Part one covers the main principles and theories of colour, focusing on the human visual system and the psychology of colour perception. Part two goes on to review colour measurement and description, including consideration of international standards, approval methods for textiles and lithographic printing, and colour communication issues. Forecasting colour trends and methods for design enhancement are then discussed in part three along with the history of colour theory, dyes and pigments, and an overview of dye and print techniques. Finally, part four considers the use of colour across a range of specific applications, from fashion, art and interiors, to food and website design.
With its distinguished editor and international team of contributors, Colour design is an invaluable reference tool for all those researching or working with colour and design in any capacity.
- Provides a comprehensive review of the issues surrounding the use of colour in textiles
- Discusses the application of colour across a vast range of industries
- Chapters cover the theories, measurement and description of colour, forecasting colour trends and methods for design enhancement
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributor contact details
- Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles
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Part I: Colour and colour perception
- Chapter 1: What is colour?
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Chapter 2: Variability in normal and defective colour vision: consequences for occupational environments
- Abstract:
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Vision information channels
- 2.3 The concept of the luminous efficiency function
- 2.4 Photoreceptor contrasts and the CIE (x,y) chromaticity chart
- 2.5 Individual differences in colour vision
- 2.6 Methods of assessing colour vision loss
- 2.7 Anomaloscope variability in the parameters of the yellow match
- 2.8 Colour assessment and diagnostics (CAD) test
- 2.9 Colour in occupational environments
- 2.10 Colour in healthcare
- 2.11 Conclusions
- 2.12 Sources of further information and advice
- 2.13 Acknowledgements
- Chapter 3: Colour illusions and the human visual system
- Chapter 4: Colour psychology: the emotional effects of colour perception
- Chapter 5: Understanding colour perception and preference
- Chapter 6: Predicting responses to colour
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Part II: Measuring and describing colour
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Chapter 7: International standards for colour
- Abstract:
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 CIE standard colorimetric observers
- 7.3 CIE illuminants and sources
- 7.4 Standards for measuring reflecting and transmitting materials
- 7.5 Expressing colour in terms of chromaticity coordinates
- 7.6 Other descriptors of chromaticity
- 7.7 Colour difference evaluation
- 7.8 Colour appearance
- 7.9 Calibration, traceability and measurement uncertainty
- 7.10 Future trends
- 7.11 Conclusions
- 7.12 Sources of further information and advice
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Chapter 8: Colour description and communication
- Abstract:
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Colour order systems
- 8.3 Named colour systems
- 8.4 Colour naming
- 8.5 Instrumental measurement of colour
- 8.6 Digital imaging systems
- 8.7 Colour constancy
- 8.8 Metamerism
- 8.9 Colour standards
- 8.10 Colour difference
- 8.11 Computation of colour co-ordinates
- 8.12 Derivation of the CIE 1931 standard observer
- 8.13 Future trends
- 8.14 Sources of further information and advice
- Chapter 9: Colour naming for colour communication
- Chapter 10: Colour specification and visual approval methods for textiles
- Chapter 11: Colour management and approval methods in lithographic printing
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Chapter 7: International standards for colour
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Part III: Colour, design and coloration
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Chapter 12: The history of colour theory in art, design and science
- Abstract:
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 The Reformation (c. 1520–c. 1550)
- 12.3 The Counter-Reformation (c. 1550-c. 1610)
- 12.4 Early Baroque (c. 1610–c. 1645)
- 12.5 Baroque Classicism (c. 1645–c. 1715)
- 12.6 High Baroque (c. 1715–c. 1770)
- 12.7 Neo-Classicism (c. 1770–c. 1815)
- 12.8 Romanticism (c. 1815–c. 1845)
- 12.9 Victorian Classicism (c. 1845–c. 1885)
- 12.10 Early Modernism (c. 1885–c. 1915)
- 12.11 Modern Classicism (c. 1915–c. 1955)
- 12.12 Late Modernism (c. 1955–c. 1985)
- Chapter 13: Enhancing design using color
- Chapter 14: Understanding and forecasting colour trends in design
- Chapter 15: Colour symmetry: the systematic coloration of patterns and tilings
- Chapter 16: The history of dyes and pigments: from natural dyes to high performance pigments
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Chapter 17: Dye types and application methods
- Abstract:
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 Dye selection
- 17.3 Preparation of materials for dyeing
- 17.4 Dyeing of cellulosic fibres
- 17.5 Dyeing of protein fibres
- 17.6 Dyeing of polyamide fibres
- 17.7 Dyeing of polyester fibres
- 17.8 Dyeing of acrylic fibres
- 17.9 Fluorescent brightening agents
- 17.10 Dyeing of fibre blends
- 17.11 Dyeing machinery
- 17.12 Conclusions
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Chapter 18: Colour printing techniques
- Abstract:
- 18.1 Hardcopy colour: analogue versus digital
- 18.2 Colour theory in relation to printing
- 18.3 An overview of halftoning and digital print technologies
- 18.4 An overview and development of inks
- 18.5 Inkjet papers and inks
- 18.6 Recent and future trends in colour, printing inks and hardware
- 18.9 Glossary
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Chapter 12: The history of colour theory in art, design and science
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Part IV: Colour and design in particular applications
- Chapter 19: Colour trends and selection in fashion design
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Chapter 20: Colour in interior design
- Abstract:
- 20.1 Introduction
- 20.2 The role of an interior designer
- 20.3 Colour psychology
- 20.4 In the home: colour and its many moods
- 20.5 Colour toolkit
- 20.6 Factors that influence colour
- 20.7 Colour in the public and commercial space
- 20.8 Colour trends
- 20.9 How cultural influences affect colour
- 20.10 Conclusions
- 20.11 Sources of further information and advice
- Chapter 21: Colour in food
- Chapter 22: Choosing effective colours for websites
- Chapter 23: Evolution and colour change in works of art
- Index
Product information
- Title: Colour Design
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2012
- Publisher(s): Woodhead Publishing
- ISBN: 9780857095534
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