COLOR FUNDAMENTALS
If one says “red” and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And all these reds will be very different. Colors present themselves in continuous flux, constantly related to changing neighbors and changing conditions.
JOSEF ALBERS / Artist, visual theorist, and educator; from Interaction of Color, Yale University Press
IN THIS CHAPTER:
Color is really another part of visual language, along with form and space, but it deserves its own chapter because it’s so complex, mysterious, and challenging for many people. First up: the physics of how we perceive light and interpret what our eyes do with it to identify color’s basic attributes.
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