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The Complete Color Harmony: Deluxe Edition

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This premium anniversary edition of The Complete Color Harmony gives you the colour explorations, insights, and palettes from the original version in a deluxe new package that includes a pullout poster and centre gatefold. First published in 1983 and now an essential reference for designers, The... Read More
Format: Hardback
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The Complete Color Harmony: 40th Anniversary Edition is the ultimate deluxe guide to color, featuring curated palettes and valuable information on the powerful effects of color.

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This premium anniversary edition of The Complete Color Harmony gives you the colour explorations, insights, and palettes from the original version in a deluxe new package that includes a pullout poster and centre gatefold.

First published in 1983 and now an essential reference for designers, The Complete Color Harmony was the first book published by the acclaimed design publisher Rockport Publishers. This special version of the classic reference celebrates Rockport's 40th anniversary.

Get an introduction to using the colour wheel and discover the key aspects of colour, such as warm, cool, pale, and bright. Then, delve into moods and colour and see how a wide variety of palettes can come across as earthy, powerful, regal, calm, dependable, and more.

In this book you'll discover:

  • Hundreds of organised colour palettes that can be used for a variety of art and design projects.
  • Why certain colours attract.
  • How colours evoke certain moods.
  • Advice on choosing the best colours to work with.
  • A CMYK process colour chart and colour swatches to make choosing colours and palettes easy.

With all the expert information in this convenient portable guide, you'll feel confident in every colour choice.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780760392577

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 July 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Rockport Publishers Inc.

Illustration: color illustrations

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Stuart Semple

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 794g

Pages: 216

About the Author

Tina Sutton is a veteran color, consumer trends, and fashion marketing consultant for product developers, corporations, and advertising agencies. She has researched, written about, and lectured on the psychology of color for numerous publications, arts institutions, and television and radio programs nationwide. Sutton is also a longtime style and features writer for The Boston Globe, and author of The Making of Markova: Diaghilev's Baby Ballerina to Groundbreaking Icon, a highly regarded biography of legendary dancer Alicia Markova.

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