Colour

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Colour in nature as reference

Lesson 27 of 27 in Colour.

Using nature to build a color palette · Design Chronology
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Natural palettes are a reliable source because they are not arbitrary. The colours on a hillside, a bird or a broken mineral occur together for physical reasons, which is why they sit comfortably in a way invented combinations often do not.

sample from the thing itselfand keep the proportions the photograph used
Five swatches sampled out of one photograph, in the proportions it uses them.
A designer on a hillside at dusk holds a paint chip up to the view, with lichen-covered rocks, a small orange-breasted bird and a row of matched chips beside her.
A designer holds paint chips up against a hillside at dusk to match them. Colours found together in nature share one light, so they sit well side by side.
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    Which of these words means this? “Colour from microscopic structure interfering with light rather than from pigment.”

    • Colour symbolism
    • Contrast
    • LUT
    • Structural colour
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    Which of these words means this? “Darker above, lighter below. Extremely common, and useful to notice.”

    • Countershading
    • Contrast
    • LUT
    • Duotone
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