The Pocket Complete Color Harmony: 1,500 Plus Color Palettes for Designers, Artists, Architects, Makers, and Educators

by Tina Sutton

Overview

This pocket-size version of The Complete Color Harmony features the color explorations, insights, and palettes included in the original version in a handy, take-along size. It’s the one color reference designers need.

Get an introduction to using the color wheel and discover the key aspects of color, such as warm, cool, pale, and bright. Then, delve into moods and color and see how a wide variety of palettes can come across as earthy, powerful, regal, calm, dependable, and more.

In this book you’ll discover:

• Hundreds of organized color palettes that can be used for a variety of art and design projects.
• Why certain colors attract.
• How colors evoke certain moods.
• Advice on choosing the best colors to work with.
• A CMYK process color chart and color swatches to make choosing colors and palettes easy.

With all the expert information in this convenient portable guide, you’ll feel confident in every color choice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781631599200
Publisher:	Rockport Publishers
Publication date:	10/13/2020
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	142,274
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 4.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Tina Sutton is a veteran color, consumer trends and fashion marketing consultant for product developers, corporations and advertising agencies. She has researched, written about and lectured on the psychology of color for numerous publications, arts institutions, and television and radio programs nationwide. Sutton was also a longtime style and features writer for The Boston Globe, and author of The Making of Markova: Diaghilev’s Baby Ballerina to Groundbreaking Icon, a highly regarded biography of legendary dancer Alicia Markova.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Color Wheel
How to Use Color
The Color Chart
The Process
Aspects of Color Hot
Cold
Warm
Cool
Light
Dark
Pale
Bright Basic Color Schemes
What’s Your Color?
Moods and Color Powerful
Rich
Romantic
Vital
Earthy
Friendly
Soft
Welcoming
Moving
Elegant
Trendy
Fresh
Traditional
Refreshing
Tropical
Classic
Dependable
Calm
Regal
Magical
Nostalgic
Energetic
Subdued
Professional
Pure
Graphic The Psychology of Color
Process Color Conversion Chart
Color Swatches
About the Author
Photo Credits
 

Editorial Reviews

09/01/2020

Sutton (The Making of Markova: Diaghilev's Baby Ballerina to Groundbreaking Icon), an industry color consultant in fashion, marketing, and color psychology, distills her years of experience in choosing exactly the right shade for the occasion into a handy pocket guide derived from her earlier work titled Complete Color Harmony. Beginning with the basics of the color wheel, Sutton covers everything from introductory color theory and the psychology of various colors to color trend forecasting. The bulk of the book is dedicated to more than 1,500 color palettes derived from the twelve segments of the color wheel, which can then become the inspiration for the user's own colorful projects. VERDICT This helpful guide not only offers a concise introduction to the theory of colors but will also prove valuable to advertisers, architects, interior designers, artists, and others planning their next project.—John Charles, formerly of Scottsdale P.L., AZ

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