Digital Colour in Graphic Design

ore than 10 000 years ago, as the first Paleolithic painter picked up a stick or reed and reached out to smear coloured earth on to a cave wall in southern Europe (Figure 11.1), little could he or she have realised that these first tentative strokes laid the foundation for Man’s most creative pursuit.

The thousands of years which followed have witnessed continuous evolution in both the materials and the techniques used for painting and the creation of works of enduring and universally acknowledged beauty as well as works which have provoked bitter ...