Valentines and the fascinating color red
In less than two weeks Valentine's Day will be here! Red is now everywhere. Shops are filled with red-wrapped goodies, red shaped everything, red, red, red! However many illustrators and designers are using other colors on their Valentine's Day greeting cards and gifts. Just have a look at some greeting cards and Valentine's gifts examples I selected. These Zazzle artists picked dark grey, white, pink and soft blue with tiny red spots. It looks good!
A color circle, based on Red, Yellow, and Blue, is traditional in the field of art. Sir Isaac Newton developed the first circular diagram of colors in 1666. Since then many have studied and designed numerous variations of this concept. In traditional color theory, Red, Yellow and Blue are the 3 pigment colors that cannot be mixed or formed by any combination of other colors. All other colors are derived from these 3 hues.
Hence you are sitting at the computer desk, remember that in printing, Yellow, Cyan (bright blue), Magenta (blue-red), and Black make up all other colors. They are called process colors. On computer or television screens, Red, Green, and Blue make up all other colors. Colors viewed on monitors, computer or television will vary significantly unless calibrated.
So, imagine this: if you design a big red heart on your laptop and send it to your boyfriend by email what kind of red will he see? Rose-red? Strawberry red? Blood red?!!
To communicate a specific hue is quite a problem. Early in the 1900s, Albert Munsell, a professor at an art school in Boston developed a color system that offered a means to name colors. With a published system, people could be specific about which red they were referring to. Today Pantone is very popular. Pantone lists colors.
Red has been used to affect our moods and to influence shopping choices because the color is an important form of nonverbal communication. Color influences our choices from the clothes we wear to the food we eat. Designers, therefore, cannot afford to treat color lightly. When it comes to design, red grabs attention. It shouts out from the page, the wall!! Red is bold and you do not need to use a lot of it to grab consumer's attention.
Kawaii Child Pattern with Cute Doodles Pillow by loveshack
Browse other throw pillow designs on Zazzle.
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Ice Cream Classroom School Kids Valentine's Day Announcement by fatfatin_mini_me
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Cute Hedgehog finds its true love in a scrub brush Post Card by RustyDoodle
Learn about postcard printing using Zazzle
I Love You More Than Coffee Valentine Card by beckynimoy
View other Coffee valentine's day Cards at Zazzle.com
Still interested and curious? Follow these links to discover more on the fascinating RED!
Computer hope presents HTML color codes - HTML color codes are hexadecimal triplets representing the colors red, green, and blue. For example, in the color red, the color code is FF0000, which is '255' red, '0' green, and '0' blue.
Pigments through the ages - Red is the color of fire and blood. Hebrew words for blood and red have the same origin: "dm" means red and "dom" means blood. Blood and fire have both positive and negative connotations: bloodshed, aggression, war, and hate are on one side, and love, warmth, and compassion on the other side. In ancient Egypt, red was the color of life and of victory. During celebrations, Egyptians would paint their bodies with red ochre. The normal skin tone of Egyptian men was depicted as red, without any negative connotation.
Pantone, all about it - In 1963, Lawrence Herbert, Pantone's founder, created an innovative system for identifying, matching and communicating colors to solve the problems associated with producing accurate color matches in the graphic arts community. His insight that the spectrum is seen and interpreted differently by each individual led to the innovation of the PANTONE® MATCHING SYSTEM®, a book of standardized color in fan format.
Lots of PSD Tutorials
Redhead and proud! How many redheads do you know? Are you a redhead?
A collection of National Geographic photos about red! - Beautiful photos where red is king!
Colour therapy might help you! - Colour Therapy is a complementary therapy for which there is evidence dating back thousands of years to the ancient cultures of Egypt, China, and India. Colour is simply light of varying wavelengths, thus each colour has its own particular wavelength and energy. Colour Therapy is a truly holistic therapy.
Theories about love - What's the difference between love and passion?
Wikipedia on Red
Very nice collection. Thank you so much for sharing one of mine! :) -Shelby
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