Questions tagged [color-theory]
Questions about color mixing guidance and the visual impacts of specific color combinations.
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What colors should be used for representing opposites? [closed]
For example 2 opposing Teams in a Video Game
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How do I go about colouring visited links?
I'm making a website for my software company. Originally, I made the "visited" colour for links a darker version of the primary link colour. Looking back, I decided that the dark blue colour ...
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Difference between health, wellness, and fitness color palettes?
If I google "color palette health", I get something different than if I google "color palette wellness". And "color palette fitness" gives even different results. I ...
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How to expand a simple palette?
I grabbed a fun little neon palette from Paletton (below), and I want to try editing a photo (that I've reduced to a 256-color indexed colormap) to be in the neon palette. I'd like to get more nuanced ...
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How to change a logo to work on a similarly coloured background?
This is my logo, which usually also has the company name below it:
It is mostly used on either a white or a purple background. I’d like to use the logo on some clothing, like purple t-shirts, but the ...
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Two shapes with the same color code look different
I am creating a simple logo and I find even though the stroke color is identical hex, they both do not look the same in the document as well as when exported to a png are different. Both are set to #...
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How to/Help create a CIELAB color space wheel in Adobe illustrator?
I am trying to create an RGB approximation of the CIELAB color space wheel for a* and b*. I know that effectively the there needs to be an angular/conical gradient from a central point with Yellow (...
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What is the minimal color palette that as long as we stick to it, then in general, there won't be any color contrast problems whatsoever?
I am not an ophthalmologist and not very familiar with color cognitive biases or blindnesses, so there might be a false premise in the following question or in possible discussions.
I also don't ask ...
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How can one transform a neutral lookup table texture for color blindness?
I want to add color blindness support on my Unity game, for this, the Color Grading effect appears to be the way to go.
This is the neutral lookup table, i.e. when applied, nothing changes, it's ...
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What are good reasons to reduce contrast?
Background information:
Hi. I'm in discussion with our marketing regarding a picture. Since I found a typo, they need to redo the image anyways, so I have some additional feedback for them.
The ...
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Measuring Color Temperatur Of Colors Not On Planckian Locus
I'm confused, why aren't the scales in the plot (with the labels 6000, 4000, 3000, etc.) forming a right angle with the Planckian locus? In my understanding, for a color not on the locus, one chooses ...
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How to calculate colors which perfectly fits together rgb/ryb/cmyk/?
For my project (game) im trying to create a simple color palette of ~12 100% saturation colors and use those colors aswell with different saturation-shades-tints for less important elements. (goal: ...
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UI design: How to match the movement of the hue with the movement of saturation and brightness?
I'm currently learning UI design, right now I'm focusing on color. I make good progress, but now I have hit a roadblock I can't wrap my head around.
I understood that it's possible to design an ...
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Cross-culture Bad-to-Good scale colouring
I need to produce a scale going from "bad to good". Usually red stands for bad and green for good. However, the target audience is global and in some cultures, red is actually good (e.g. ...
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How can I quickly find a matching color without professional skills?
I'm using PowerPoint to draw some diagrams for my thesis. I found that many papers had beautifully drawn pictures. But when I make it myself, it's always weird.
I'm wondering if it's possible to ...
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Advantages of non-white background in typography
Financial Times website has a non-white background, namely, 255,240,229 in sRGB. However, the text is not black: 50,48,46 (the title is black).
Are there any advantages of such color scheme for web ...
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Best 4-color palette for dithering arbitrary images on screen
Duplicate of this question since society of retro-computing closed it and recommended it to be moved here.
In the good ol'days many computers limit their palettes to 4 to 6 colors instead of 8/16/256/...
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What do we call darker, deeper, richer colors?
Burgundy, Forest Green, Navy/Royal Blue, to me, all have a darker, richer shade than their primary color counterparts. We identify lighter, duller shades as pastel, do we have a word for darker and ...
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Why do the colors of these buttons look off?
I'm learning graphic design and, for practice, I'm making an app. I noticed my color choice of these buttons look off, although I'm unsure why. Also the proportions, but I'll take care of that later. ...
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Color scheme implementation suggestions for dark purple and neon pink
(Although 'opinion' certainly may be in play here, there seem to be some consistent best practices about color usage on the web, and this question is about how to handle the scenario where violations ...
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How to create a color palette for an app instead of website
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How do I create a color palette that supports the user expierence of my app and supports the specific requirements of an app compared to a website for a product or company. I don't need the ...
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Theoretical best colors for dithering
It would seem that I'm very bad at explaining myself. This is not unusual, thus this clarification.
Imagine a flip dot display. 2 colors, one or the other, per flip dot or pixel, no substrate, no ...
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Question about what colours fall into the pointers gamut
Absolutely no idea if this is the best place to ask, if not, please point me in a better direction.
Basically, I have been using this software to determine if the pixel colours of an image (the pixel ...
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Trouble converting from sRGB to CIE 1931 XYZ
No idea if this is the right place to ask this, if not, please point me in a better direction.
I am trying to convert sRGB values R:100 G:78 B:94 to XYZ using this site: https://www.nixsensor.com/free-...
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Complement genereted color schemes to my CSS/HTML
There are fine tools out that generate color schemes with a color wheel based on color science. E.g. Paletton does so and offer me to export the colors to CSS.
It is not clear for me to which elements ...
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Find two scales of color that do not intersect (much)
I have objects that have a number property (it's actually a percentage). I analyze these objects based on wether this property exceeds a threshold or not. I want to show these objects and color them ...
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How can we deal with a white logo that needs to be placed on a white background?
Our brand has had its logo for several years and we like it. The only issue is now we need to place it on a white background, which obviously limits our options. What can be done (other than embossing ...
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Critique Personal Logo
Heyo guys. I'm looking to get my personal logo critiqued
The logo would represent the intersection between engineering and design and set an overarching design language for what I place it on:
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Calculation of RGB colors based on a sample color with darker and lighter variants
I have an icon which utilizes 3 variants of the same basic color (at least it seems).
This is the basic color: #7646be:
1st variant (darker version): #582299:
2nd variant (lighter version): #c4acff:
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How to balance the satuations of the colour used in my design?
Hi there, we've been designing this to present our profiles for a while now. We just felt something might be off with the colour. Please let me know if you got any thoughts on any points to improve🙏🙏...
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Question about balancing color palettes
I am currently learning color theory in depth, and I have trouble figuring out how to balance a color palette and how chroma plays a role in it.
I have read an article that the following image (the ...
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DeltaE lower but color tone/hue different
I'm currently digging into color calculations/ conversions and also work with DeltaE.
Although the mathematical way might be correct, how can I get a better "human accepted" difference?
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Is every Pantone color displayable in sRGB?
I thought this would be asked somewhere before, but I can't find it. So if you have any good links for me to read please let me know.
How much do Pantone (especially Pantone Solid Coated) and sRGB &...
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What is the lightest shade of pink that can contrast to white at 3:1?
I'm trying to investigate / create a pink color pallet. I need to know what is the lightest shade of pink that can give a contrast ratio (see WCAG) of 3:1 -- and maybe even 4.5:1 -- with white (#...
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How are #654ff0 and #f0db4f complementary?
The new WebAssembly logo uses a colour, #654ff0, that is claimed to be complementary to the one used in a JavaScript logo, #f0db4f:
I've tried various online tools (#654ff0 gives #fd9815 or #ffd63b ...
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Adobe Illustrator: How to build a color palette around skin tone
I'm using Adobe Illustrator and the recolor dialog box. For the purpose of this artwork, I can't change the skin tone, and the color of the hair is also limited. I'd like for Illustrator to give me a ...
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How to achieve result of a 2 Layer setup(top one is Overlay blend) with a multiple default images combination?
Imagine we have a 2 layer setup like this:
Top Layer + (Blend Mode: Overlay)
this layer shows a half-transparent smoke cloud - very bright in the center starting at white with smooth color transitions ...
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Why is brown a neutral color?
I recently have read two definitions of being a neutral color.
Neutral colors are colors that can be used within any color scheme as in contour and highlight.
Neutral colors are hues that appear to ...
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Which colors as background for a white logo [closed]
It is common to find white logos on a (some variant of) red background, e.g. Quora, Pinterest, Adobe, Swiss, Lego, etc. Somewhat less common is a white logo on a blue background, e.g. (Facebook) ...
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How to determine color temperature by computer?
Hello I need to figure out if skin tones (real ones from photographies) are either warm or cool. As I'm having difficulties assessing with my eyes only I wondered if there was a tool that would tell ...
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How do I find multiple variation of same color which are visually contrasting
I am developing some kind of heatmap for a stock market-related project which has ~80 large to small boxes on the screen to denote a stock and it's change
I use a red background on box to denote loss, ...
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Design system - shades of primary color from 050 to 900 how to evaluate which colors are these?
I want to create a scale of shades from 050 to 900. (I refer to Material Design Color palettes like here: https://material.io/design/color/the-color-system.html#color-usage-and-palettes)
I have my ...
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How to fine tune text colors for black background?
In a current project, I want to display formulas with different colours on black background.
My idea is that they are easy to distinguish, have good contrast to the black background and fit together ...
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Writing professional texts
Since I don't know pretty much about, I'd like to ask you:
What makes a text professional?
At first glance, what do people notice in the text that will then prompt them to read it?
What colors can ...
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How to choose a good color palette that is easy for the eyes, yet convey the deepness of the topic?
This is the map of all topics my project discusses:
Click for full screen. SVG file
Here are the feedback of the viewers:
Person 1: The color is painful to the eyes
Person 2: The graphic is quite ...
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Given a set of surrounding colors, how to find a good color template?
This is a map of topics the I cover in my project. The topics are segmented in different stages, and I would like to have your advice on how to color the segments. I check the color wheel to find a ...
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When to use Curves for photo?
i don't understand something in color correction, when should i use Curves that changes Shadows/Highlights colors, rather than change the color itself by using for example selective color?
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Are luminosity and value synonymous
I have always heard the word value used to describe the lightness of a color. Does luminosity refer to the same thing?
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Good-to-Bad color scale without green
I'm new to the community but I was wondering if you guys could help me out. Typically when someone want to display a scale of good-to-bad they show something like:
Red is bad and green is good, with ...
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Is the color exactly between two opposite colors always medium gray?
I was trying to find the opposite of a web color (let's take #917AFA as an example) and an online tool told me that it is #6E8505. Then, I used another online tool to find the color that is exactly in ...
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