
(F39)_Job:12-40337 Title:RP-Design Elements 2nd Edition
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color fundamentals
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CHROMATIC INTERACTION
Color: Form and Space Colors exhibit a
number of spatial properties: their relative
temperatures, values, and saturations, in
combination, will cause the forms to which
they are applied to occupy an apparent
foreground, middle-ground, or back-
ground position in illusory space. Of the
primary colors (in their pure states), blue
appears to recede and yellow to advance,
but red appears to sit statically at a middle
depth within space. In general, against a
white field, warm colors ...