Understanding Color, 5th Edition

INDEX

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• Absorption of light
• Acceptable matches
• Achromatic colors
• Acuity, see Visual acuity
• Adaptation to light
• Additive color(s)
  • in illuminant mode of vision
  • instability of
  • mixing of light to form
• Additive media, color interactions in
• Additive mixtures
• Additive primaries
• Admixture
• Advertisements
• Aerial perspective, see Atmospheric perspective
• Africa
• Afterimages:
  • and contrast reversal
  • defined
  • illusions caused by
• Age of Reason, color theory in
• Albers, Josef:
  • on color harmony
  • color-order system of
  • on interaction of colors
  • in modern color study
  • on names of colors
  • “volume color” concept of
• Alternative spectrums
• Ambient light
• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
• Analogous colors:
  • defined
  • hues of
  • in major and minor themes
• Aniline dyes
• Aniline purple
• Announcement for a Thesis in Color (Goethe)
• Apparel, see Fashion
• Apple Macintosh platform
• Applied artwork
• Applied color
• Architectural design
• Area, color shifts related to
• Aristotle
• Arnheim, Rudolf
• Arousal, phasic vs. tonic
• Arrangement, changes in color due to. See also Contrast
• Art deco coloring
• Artists' media
• Artists' primaries
• Artists' spectrum
  • analogous colors on
  • complementary colors of
  • defined
  • in Goethe's color theory
  • harmonious chords in
  • hues in
  • primary, secondary, and intermediate colors in
  • saturated color in
  • value of colors on
• The Art of Color (Itten)
• Associative color
• ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials)
• Atmospheric perspective
• Attributes of color
  • hue
  • saturation
  • tone
  • value
• Awareness ...