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THAWATCHAI SRISUTHEP
colorist
Copyright 2011 All Rights Reserve by Thawatchai Srisuthep
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1. Computer graphic 2. Color and color usage I.Title. 006.6 First Edition Print in Thailand
The Creative Color Schemes 2 follows its predecessor The Creative Color Schemes launched in 2009. The Creative Color Schemes 2 consists of 240 innovative color combinations that are ready to be used in any design project. All these color schemes are fresh, beautiful and impressive. Designers, Illustrators and artists will find this book an indispensable resource of innovative color schemes ideas. In this book, a color scheme consists of 5 colors instead of 15 colors in the previous book. This compact color scheme will make it more straightforward and easier to use than before. Moreover, many design projects typically use only 3-5 colors in their designs. The Creative Color Schemes 2, an essential tool to work with colors effectively without an effort. It provides an exciting new way off choosing color schemes for your designs. You can quickly explore all color schemes and easily find the most suitable color scheme for your design project. One of its advantages is that you can experience the personality and feeling of all color schemes before using them. Thanking for purchasing a copy of The Creative Color Schemes 2. I hope it becomes a valued addition to your creative design resources. Now, lets enjoy choosing the perfect color scheme for your works.
Thawatchai Srisuthep
The Creative Color Schemes 2 contains 240 color combinations that are ready to use in any design projects. All these color schemes are designed with a balance of harmony, contrast, continuation, variation and the feeling of colors. Without worrying about color theory, you can easily explore ideas of color combinations from all these color schemes. With 240 stunning color schemes at hand, you can choose your desired color schemes in a minute. Stop wasting your time on randomly choosing one color at a time and hoping that they will go well together. All these ready to use color schemes will help you work with colors easily. You will clearly see the effect of color combinations before applying them to your works. So you can feel confident that the color schemes you use will really give you the desired color effect. The most important thing is that you do not need to risk your time and resources with the colors you see on the screen. You can get the right colors in print at the very first time. An impressive color scheme will increase the color impact of your design, making it more attractive. Moreover, a color scheme that suits your content will help conveying the message to the audience. You will see plenty of examples on how to use colors together. They show the contrast between colors when they are used together, including color characters on color backgrounds. The color usage illustration will help you see all the color interaction among colors in a theme before applying them to your projects.
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We can roughly divide all color schemes into 2 parts. The first part consists of color schemes that are bright and vibrant. Meanwhile, color schemes in the second part are more into grayish and dark tones. They are all fascinating color schemes with their own personality and feeling.
To avoid limiting each designers personal meaning of our color schemes, we decided not to name each color scheme. This opens the opportunity for designers to freely imagine the personality and feeling of all color schemes by themselves.
Once you have selected a desired color scheme, the next thing is to evaluate color usage illustration in the Color Applications part. You will clearly see how colors are interacting with one another in a theme and discover how well each color goes together. Please notice the color contrast and only use the color combinations that give enough contrast. Do not use colors that are too similar or crash with each other. Examples in the Color Characters on Color Backgrounds part show legibility of colors when they are used together. We should only use a combination of colors that have enough contrast and easy to read.
In the 3-Color Combinations part at the bottom of a page, there are 15 groups of 3-Color Combinations. All of these combinations are organized so that a color in a theme is connecting to the other four colors. Before choosing a group of colors to work on, you can clearly see the interaction of all colors in a color scheme. Therefore, you will know exactly which colors are good together versus the ones that are not. This section will help you quickly select a group of three colors for your design. Moreover, they will ensure how colors will appear in your work right before using them.
Please note that in each color scheme, some colors are too similar to use together. These colors are especially dark colors with the same intensity as well as light colors with the same intensity. So please do not put these colors next to each other because it is difficult to differentiate them.
The Color Gradient Strip at the bottom of each page shows the gradient of all colors in that color scheme. It is easy to see how a color gradually changes to another color. Try to use a color gradient in a background of your work, and you will see how beautiful it is.
Color Scheme 3Color scheme in five circles, Circle all theme colors are ordered
from inside to outside
The identification number of a color scheme, colored by one of colors in that color scheme
Color scheme in five rectangles that clearly expresses nature and feeling of the color scheme. The order of colors is carefully organized for the best effect of that color scheme.
Color values in CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black) for graphic design and print media, RGB (Red, Green and Blue) values for on-screen media, and HEX (Hexadecimal) values for web design. color of characters and stroke of color dots in its column below
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The area that shows how to use color on characters against several color backgrounds in various ways
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color color color 3Shows character colors, dot colors, and stroke
colors on various background colors in a theme
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color color color 3In the same column, both colors of character and
dot stroke are the same as the circle color on top of their column. Meanwhile, colors of dots are all five colors of a scheme.
color color Five vertical color dots show theme colors on several background colors
In the position where column color and color color background color are the same, the color of character and dot stroke as well as a dot on the sidebar are changed to white instead
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4Background Color color color Color background stripes, start from white and
then follow by them colors in sequence. Please spot color interaction in each position andcolor a group ofcolorthat work well only select colors together. Only use a combination of colors that has enough contrast and easy to read. Do not use colors that are too similar or crash with each other. As an illustration on the next page, the red circle color a few pairs of color combinations color signs mark that do not provide enough contrast and thus not suitable to use.
This chart demonstrates how to use all colors color in the scheme together in a form color of character colors on various background colors as well as dot fills and dot strokes on various background colors
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43-Color Combinations
In this area, there are 15 groups of 3-Color Combinations. All these combinations are organized so that a color in a theme is connecting to the other four colors. In this area, you can clearly see the interaction of all colors in a color scheme. This will help you quickly select a group of three colors for your design.
In each column, the first two colors are fixed and organized in sequence. For example, the first column has color 1 and color 2 as main colors, the second column has color 2 and color 3 as main colors, and so on. Meanwhile, the third column in each group has one of the remaining colors in the theme.
This stripe shows the gradient of colors in the scheme. The order of color gradient is determined by continuity of colors.
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