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Cooperative Extension Service College of Agriculture and Home Economics N EW M EX IC O STA E UNIVERSITY T Color and You Guide C-301 Susan Wright, Extension Clothing and Textiles Specialist This publication is scheduled to be updated and reissued 5/06. To find more resources for your business, home, or family, visit the College of Agriculture and Home Economics on the World Wide Web at www.cahe.nmsu.edu You learn about color by experimenting with it. As you learn more about color, you will select clothing and cosmetic colors that will be harmonious with your own personal coloring, figure type, and personality type. How are colors created? A widely accepted theory of color is based on the idea that all colors are derived from the three primary colors-red, yellow, and blue. All other colors come from mixtures of these three primary colors. Thinking about colors around you and where they might be placed on a color wheel will help you see color relationships. Primary colors: red, yellow, and blue Secondary colors: green, orange, purple Intermediate colors: yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green, yellow-green Gray: combination of all pigments Further mixing of neighboring colors produces many other colors and color gradations. ( “Mixed” colors, then, can be considered as relatives, since they have common ancestors.) You will note that any mixed color fits into the color wheel according to the amount of yellow, red, or blue that it contains. Since fashion designers delight in giving each color a new name each year, you need to learn to identify the true color, or hue, you ar seeking. Hue is the term used for the name of a color. Within any family of colors there can be both light and dark, as well as bright and dull colors. For ex-ample, brown and beige can be closely related to the same orange or yellow-red family, with the brown a dark, dull orange and the beige a light, dull orange. Warm or Cool Colors Colors are considered warm if they contain enough yellow or yellow-red. They are considered cool if they contain a noticeable quantity of blue. Note that there are warm and cool versions in each color family. Purple-red or bluish-red is the cool ver-sion of red. Aqua is an example of a warm version of a cool color because some yellow had to be mixed with the predominately blue color. Value Value, the second dimension of color, describes the lightness or darkness of a color. You have a choice within each color family from light to dark colors.
Object Description
Title | Color and you |
Series Designation | Guide 400 C-301, 2001 |
Description | Guide containing general information on color, and recommendations for color use in clothing and cosmetics. |
Subject | Color in clothing; Cosmetics; cosmetics (NAL); clothing and fashion (NAL); color (NAL) |
Creator | Wright, Susan E. (Susan Elizabeth); |
Date Original | 2001-05 |
Digital Publisher | New Mexico State University Library |
Rights | Copyright, NMSU Board of Regents. |
Collection | NMSU Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station Publications |
Digital Identifier | UAAPg00C301 |
Source | http://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_c/C-301.pdf |
Type | Text |
Format | application/pdf |
Language | eng |
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Title | Page 1 |
Series Designation | Guide 400 C-301, 2001 |
Subject | Color in clothing; Cosmetics; cosmetics (NAL); clothing and fashion (NAL); color (NAL) |
Creator | Wright, Susan E. (Susan Elizabeth); |
Date Original | 2001-05 |
Digital Publisher | New Mexico State University Library |
Rights | Copyright, NMSU Board of Regents. |
Collection | NMSU Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station Publications |
Is Part Of | Color and you |
Type | Text |
Format | application/pdf |
Language | eng |
OCR | Cooperative Extension Service College of Agriculture and Home Economics N EW M EX IC O STA E UNIVERSITY T Color and You Guide C-301 Susan Wright, Extension Clothing and Textiles Specialist This publication is scheduled to be updated and reissued 5/06. To find more resources for your business, home, or family, visit the College of Agriculture and Home Economics on the World Wide Web at www.cahe.nmsu.edu You learn about color by experimenting with it. As you learn more about color, you will select clothing and cosmetic colors that will be harmonious with your own personal coloring, figure type, and personality type. How are colors created? A widely accepted theory of color is based on the idea that all colors are derived from the three primary colors-red, yellow, and blue. All other colors come from mixtures of these three primary colors. Thinking about colors around you and where they might be placed on a color wheel will help you see color relationships. Primary colors: red, yellow, and blue Secondary colors: green, orange, purple Intermediate colors: yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green, yellow-green Gray: combination of all pigments Further mixing of neighboring colors produces many other colors and color gradations. ( “Mixed” colors, then, can be considered as relatives, since they have common ancestors.) You will note that any mixed color fits into the color wheel according to the amount of yellow, red, or blue that it contains. Since fashion designers delight in giving each color a new name each year, you need to learn to identify the true color, or hue, you ar seeking. Hue is the term used for the name of a color. Within any family of colors there can be both light and dark, as well as bright and dull colors. For ex-ample, brown and beige can be closely related to the same orange or yellow-red family, with the brown a dark, dull orange and the beige a light, dull orange. Warm or Cool Colors Colors are considered warm if they contain enough yellow or yellow-red. They are considered cool if they contain a noticeable quantity of blue. Note that there are warm and cool versions in each color family. Purple-red or bluish-red is the cool ver-sion of red. Aqua is an example of a warm version of a cool color because some yellow had to be mixed with the predominately blue color. Value Value, the second dimension of color, describes the lightness or darkness of a color. You have a choice within each color family from light to dark colors. |