From the course: Color for Design and Art
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From the course: Color for Design and Art
The three components of color
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- A lot of designers are confused, and even intimidated by the whole topic of color. Maybe you're one of those designers, or maybe you're an illustrator or a fine artist who feels unsure about either choosing colors individually, or combining them into good-looking palettes. So, don't worry about it. There's a good chance you're just seeing color as being way more complicated than it really is. That's all. Here's the deal: any color that you could imagine has just three things going on with it. Just three, only three, and always three. What we're talking about here is a color's hue, saturation, and value. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. Just these three qualities. So if a color looks bad, it doesn't seem to be getting along very well with other nearby colors, then in the overwhelming majority of cases, you just need to make an adjustment to one or two of these characteristics. Yeah, sometimes all three, but even then, we're still just talking about three things to look at and…
