Color
The application includes a color management system which creates beautiful color palettes. Colors can be assigned to fashion items, materials, lights and curtains to create color-coordinated scenes.
Warm Versus Cool
Color temperature plays an important role in design, because it is associated with emotion and depth perception. Warm colors are considered active and tend to advance toward the viewer. Cool colors are passive and appear to recede. Red is regarded as the warmest color and cyan the coolest.
Warm Colors
Cool Colors
A temperature-balanced palette is often effective in design and can be achieved using the 80/20 rule. If your goal is to create a warm design, use 80% warm colors and 20% cool colors or gray tones. If your goal is to create a cool design, use 80% cool colors or gray tones and 20% warm colors.
Harmonic-Colors
Harmonic colors are useful in design, because they are pleasing to the eye and can be used to evoke different emotions. A color wheel is used to display the relationship of one color with another. Each relationship has a name and an associated symbol. Imagine how different color sets are produced by rotating each color wheel below while the harmonic symbol remains stationary.
Colors opposite one another on a color wheel are complementary colors. One of the colors is selected as the dominant color and the other is its complement. One color will always be on the warm side of the wheel; the other color will be on the cool side. If the dominant color is warm, and colors near the dominant color are added, the palette will be warm and vice-versa.
Analogous color consists of a dominant color and two secondary colors on either side. The dominant color is the primary color and the two secondary colors are used as accents. If the secondary colors are near the dominant color, the color mood is serene. As distance between the dominant color and secondary colors increases, the mode becomes more tense.
The accented analogous color scheme is a combination of the analogous and the complementary color schemes.
The split-complementary color scheme consists of a dominant color and two complementary colors on the opposite side of the color wheel. The complementary colors are used as accents.
Triadic color are a variation of the split-complementary color scheme. The colors are equal-distance from one another, and no color is dominant. This scheme produces a vibrant color palette.
Tetradic colors are a variation of the triadic color palette in that four colors instead of three are equally spaced around the color wheel. No color is dominant. A tetradic palette has an aggressive mood and requires good planning.
Tints Shades and Tones
The application automatically creates tints, shades, and tones of the selected color.
If a color is made lighter by adding white, the result is a tint of the original color.
If a color is made darker by adding black, the result is a shade of the original color.
If gray is added to a color, the result is a tone of the original color.