OUGD404: Design Principles: Systematic Colour, Question and Answer.

10 questions I need to find the answer to:

1. Top Five do's and dont's?
2. Why is brown such an ugly colour?
3. Colours which definitely shouldn't be put together?
4. What's the min. and max. amount of colour to use when designing?
5. Surely using complimentary colours to catch attention would work because it'd stick in your head?
6. Do specific colours appeal to specific audiences?
7. What's the best colour combination for body copy apart from black and white?
8. How can colour assist hierarchy in text?
9.How do you choose between different hues of grey?
10. Colours which work well?

Our groups questions:

1. How can colour assist hierarchy in text?
2. What's the min. and max. amount of colour to use when designing?
3.  Do specific colours appeal to specific audiences?
4. How can i apply rules such as temperature towards my design?
5. Whats the best colour combination for body cop apart from black and white?

 As a group we had to answer another groups questions:

1. What's the max. no. of colours you should use in design?

There is no maximum or minimum amount of colours to be used in design, its personal choice and skill which will make the design aesthetically pleasing to other.

2.Should colours be chosen in natural light or the most appropriate context it would be used in?

I believe colours should be chosen in the most appropriate context as this is the colour which is going to be seen in the final product.

3. Is it ever appropriate to use complimentary colours?

Find answer.

4. How can colour theory be applied to metallic colours?

Well there is a pantone colour swatch which can be used to apply colour theory to metallic colours.

5. Should different colour theory be used for screen?

Well when working on screen you're working in rgb, the same colour theory will apply but the colours will be different.

In Fred's session we also used Linen Testers, which allowed us to look at specific designs and tell if they were made from Format printed, which is just with one colour or CMYK, made up of cyan, magenta, black, yellow. By placing the linen tester onto a design you could magnify the pigments see what made up the colour.

When printing for industry, if printing in colour four plates are made, A cyan plate, a Magenta plate, a black plate and a yellow plate. You have to be careful when sending a file off to print to make sure you've have the right percentage of each colour, or you don't have a small percentage of one colour that shouldn't be there. This shows how it is much easier working in black and white than in colour.