Color theory and its application in art and design /
This book provides an introduction to topics in color theory suitable for artists, designers, and others who may not possess a scientific or technical background. It presents factual information in a simple, yet technically sound manner. (All mathematical equations are confined to a notes section an...
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer-Verlag,
[1987]
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| Edition: | 2nd completely rev. and updated ed. |
| Series: | Springer series in optical sciences ;
v. 19. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Color science and art before 1920
- Some developments in color science pertinent to art and design since 1920
- The concept of color
- What is color? One answer
- The visual system: a brief sketch
- What is color? Some other answers
- What is color? A practical answer in technology
- Perceived colors
- Isolated colors
- Hue
- Saturation and colorfulness
- Brightness and lightness
- Brilliance: grayness and fluorence
- Color terms
- Light and color
- What is light?
- Wavelength and light
- Spectral and nonspectral hues
- Light from lasers
- Light from the sun and from lamps
- Standard illuminants (CIE)
- Eye brightness sensitivity
- Colored materials
- Pigments and dyes
- Opaque materials
- Transparent materials
- Fluorescent materials
- Metamerism and matching colors
- Additive color mixture
- Subtractive color mixture
- Color mixture and averaging
- The primaries
- Color circles
- Color specification (CIE)
- Light and color: other definitions
- The chromaticity diagram: an introduction
- The CIE chromaticity diagram
- Dominant wavelength and purity
- An approximately uniform CIE chromaticity diagram
- Metamerism and the CIE system
- Diverse applications of the CIE chromaticity diagram
- Color names for lights
- Additive complementary color pairs
- Colors obtainable by mixing light
- Light called "white light"
- The color limits for materials (paints, inks, dyes, etc.)
- Fluorescent paints and dyes
- Iridescent colors: liquid crystals
- Mixing paints
- Color images in television, pointillism, four-color printing, and photography
- Color difference
- Colors of high contrast
- Metamers
- Metameric illumination
- Color rendering
- Color temperature
- Color systems
- CIE color space, CIE (x, y, Y)
- CIELUV and CIELAB color spaces
- Color-sample systems
- The Munsell color system
- The color harmony manual and the Ostwald color system
- The German standard color chart
- The Natural color system (NCS) and the Swedish standards color atlas
- Chromas Cosmos 5000 and Chromaton 707
- Color systems (continued): the OSA uniform color scales
- Equally spaced colors
- OSA color space
- Uniform color arrays on the series of horizontal planes through OSA color space
- Uniform color arrays on the two series of parallel vertical planes through OSA color space
- OSA uniform color scales (OSA-UCS)
- Uniform color arrays on the four series of parallel oblique planes through OSA color space
- The pastel color samples
- Comments about the OSA samples
- Color names and notations and their levels of precision
- The ISCC-NBS color names of materials
- The ISCC-NBS centroid color charts
- The Dictionary of Color Names (ISCC-NBS)
- Color designation: the levels of precision
- Conditions of viewing and the colors seen
- Psychological aspects and color systems
- Hue responses
- A psychological color specification system
- Adaptation to color; color constancy
- Adaptation level
- Memory color
- Afterimage complementary color pairs
- Simultaneous contrast
- Colored shadows
- Edge contrast
- Assimilation (reversed contrast)
- Appendix
- Some useful addresses in the field of color
- Major collections of books on color
- Color research
- Color standards
- Associations
- Conversion table and charts. CIE (x, y, Y) notation/Munsell notation
- Procedure for determining ISCC-NBS color names.