Unit 1

Wednesday 22nd Septemeber 2021

Design Principles(colour)

LO:Explore and evaluate the use of colour in graphic design.

What are hues and tints?

Hues literally mean colour.In theory a tint is a mixture of colours with white,which increases lightness,while a shade is a mixture of colours with black,which increases darkness.Both processes affect the resulting colours mixture relative saturation.A tone is produced either by mixing a colour with grey,or by both toning and shading.

Primary colours-Any group of colours that make any other colour obtained by mixing.

Secondary colours-a colour resulting from mixing two primary colours.

Mono colours-one tint or hue.

Complementary colours- a colour mixed with a given colour makes black or white.

Triad colours- three colours on the colour wheel that are equally space and have a clear dominance between them.

Tetrad colours-a colour scheme,a special variant of the dual colour scheme with the equal distance between each colour.

Analogic colours-they are three colours next to each other and a tertiary.

Accented Analogic colours-An accented analogic complementary scheme utilizes related hues lying adjacent on the colour wheel with a hue directly opposite to these.

Red-Danger,love,excitement

Blue-Peace/Loyalty

Yellow-Happiness

Orange-Confidence/success

Green-Nature/healing

Black-secrecy/closed-off

Silver-hope/faith