From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Color
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Limited palettes: A harmonious color palette
From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Color
Limited palettes: A harmonious color palette
- Let's talk about color harmony. You might have heard of it, but what is it? Harmony is a pleasing agreement of elements in a whole. We all want harmony, don't we? Essentially, it's a peaceful connection with all parts working together in sync. We try to achieve this in life, and the images we create. Harmony provides a sense of a whole. It's about creating connections from one thing to another, not just pieces or parts hanging out next to each other. One of the reasons for creating a palette that's harmonious is to develop a family of colors that work well together. A family is created by parents. A limited palette consists of a parent color or colors spawning many related connected colors. To demonstrate what creates color harmony, let's take a look at limited palettes and figure out all the color options within a family. If we start with the parents, a blue and a red, let's see all the children that can come of this union. A range of value for blue, a range of value for red, all…
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