Color Harmony: A Guide to Creative Color Combinations
author: Hideako Chijiiwa
Language: English
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Rockport Publishers; 1 edition (September 1, 1987)
dimensions: 8.2 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
Review
“Excellent, specific guides to creating fine colorcombinations and will
appeal across the board to artists working in a varietyof mediums.”
-Midwest Book Review, January 2001
Product Description
Hideaki Chijiiwa has compiled this exciting guide for use by
graphic designers, fashion and interior designers, artists – and indeed all
who require to choose combinations of colors for creative effect.
While the central section (pages 44 to 121) consists of a very
extensive range of different color combinations to make choices from,
Co/or Harmony is in fact very much more than this. The delightful
presentation from page 1 on provides a subtle introduction to color
theory right through to the very useful color cards of all the basic
colors used for the guide.
In The Living Palette we look at some of the uses and emotions associated
with eight familiar colors: red, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black and white. The Color Guide divides colors into six broad
categories: warm, cool, light, dark, vivid and dull. Each category is
illustrated with a color photograph. The photographs and color
combinations in the Color Schemes section will show you how to
create a color scheme that’s striking, tranquil, exciting, natural,
warm, cold, young, feminine or surprising. The 1,662 color combinations
in the Color Combinations section are for two, three
or four of the 61 basic colors of the guide, selected and
arranged in order to convey a specific impression, or bring to mind a
certain emotion. Each color combination is effectively arranged in a fan
shape – the dominant color always on the right, subordinate colors on
the left. In the Practical Applications section, some of the
applications for color combinations in art, industry and daily
life are illustrated. Twelve useful guidelines for selecting
your own color combinations are illustrated in the Choosing Color
section. Hideaki Chijiwa’s Color Harmony also includes a Color
Conversion Chart for the 61 basic colors into percentages of four-color
process inks that lets you simulate the colors with four-color printing.
Finally, a full range of color cards for the 61 basic colors can be
used with the gray and black masks on the book jacket flaps,
or cut out and used separately.
