Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers
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Linda Holtzschue
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- File Size: 3.4 MB
- Book Language: English
- Total Page Count: 274
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Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers
Understanding Color by Linda Holtzschue is a trusted introduction for designers. This fourth edition, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., explains how color works and how to use it with confidence. The PDF edition is available as an instant digital download.
This book covers light, vision, and colorants. It also explores the relationships between real colors and virtual colors. Design students and working professionals will find a clear path through a complex subject.
Book Overview
Understanding Color offers a practical approach to color study. Written for design students, architects, graphic designers, and others who use color, it avoids dependence on complicated theories. Instead, it provides a road map to color relationships, including the connection between printed, painted, and screen-based colors.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- An introduction to color study and color-order systems
- The role of light, lamps, and vision in color perception
- The distinction between additive and subtractive color
- A clear vocabulary of hue and the artists’ spectrum
- How metamerism, luminosity, and surface affect color
- Guidance on naming colors and understanding color as language
Why This Book Matters
Technology has changed how designers work with color. Colored light is now central to the studio workplace. This edition helps readers see color in both traditional and digital environments. It is a practical bridge between physical colorants and virtual color.
Book Details
| Format | |
|---|---|
| File Size | 3.4 MB |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 274 |
| Author | Linda Holtzschue |
| Edition | Fourth Edition |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
| Publication Place | Hoboken, New Jersey |
| Publication Year | 2011 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-470-38135-9 (pbk.); 978-0-470-95066-1 (ebk.); 978-0-470-95078-4 (ebk.); 978-1-118-00575-0 (ebk.); 978-1-118-00576-7 (ebk.); 978-1-118-00577-4 (ebk.) |
| Copyright | © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
| Dewey Decimal | 701’.85—dc22 |
| LC Classification | NK1548.H66 2011 |
| LCCN | 2010041034 |
| Online Workbook | www.wiley.com/go/understandingcolor4e |
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Begin your study of color with this clearly written fourth edition. It is ready to download and read whenever you are.
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| Title | Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers |
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