December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Color theory offers a conceptual framework for understanding color perception.
In 1839, a standard color wheel was implemented by Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889) in which primary colors stand opposite each other and are known as “complementaries.” This relatively crude understanding was superseded by the work of the American scientist Albert Henry Munsell (1858–1918).
Munsell identified three properties of color:
• Lightness (how light or dark a color is)
• Chroma (the amount of color)
• Hue (the position on the color wheel)
To model color relationships, Munsell proposed a sphere in which the hues of the color wheel form the equator. Lightness is represented by the north and south poles, with white at the top and black at ...