Principles of Colour Theory
Colour is most things have been round for quite some time however, the colour wheel itself was invented by Sit Isaac Newton. Colour charts where different as they existed long before this. The basic design of the colour wheel has evolved over time but remains quite the same concept as back then. The basic concept of the colour wheel is that alomost5 any colour that is picked from the wheel itself will work together. A basic colour wheel will feature 12 different colours that can be combined to create multiple different colours. The primary colours are Red, yellow and blue in traditional colour theory which is used in paint and pigments. Secondary colours are Green, orange and purple and these colours are formed by mixing the primary colours. Tertiary colours are formed by mixing a primary and also secondary colour, the colour that is created from these is usually a two-word name such as blue-green or red-violet.
RGB and CYMK
Whenever you are designing anything that is in colour you need to make sure that you are familiar with and basically know the two types of colour models which are RGB and CYMK. If you are or want to be a graphic designer or mainly any type of designers or even printer you need to know that RGB is mainly used for digital communication like television or even websites. CMYK is used for anything that is printed such as posters, brochures or even business cards.
RGB stands for the colours of red, green and blue. These types of colours are recognised for and used in most design fields as the primary colours that you need to mix together to make all other colours. The RGB model is known for colours that are added together to make up what we see on screens. This can range from multiple things such as a television set or even a computer monitor. The RGB on these monitors are made up of tiny pixels that when viewed under a magnifying glass are usually one of three different colours. Light is used to project through these pixels, blending them together in the retina in your eye to create the desired colour.
On the other hand, CYMK stand for another set of colours. The colours that this stands for is Cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The pigments that CYMK uses are printed onto paper in tiny little cyan, magenta, yellow and black dots. If you took a magnifying glass to something like a magazine cover or even a brochure or businesses card, you could see the main image is basically just a bunch of dots that are spread out on the page. Some of the dots will be closer to some than others on the page and then appear to the colour that we basically want.
Anthony Maye 