REFERENCE BOOK

Michal Macko
This book was designed with Adobe Illustrator.
FOREWORD_
This is a reference book for artists
of any style working with color.
It’s meant to be used as a reference
guide for your color choices.

I will keep updating this book

continually from time to time
with more additional content
and words.
WARM

COOL
YELLOW Y
YELLOW - ORANGE YO
ORANGE O
RED - ORANGE RO
RED R
RED - VIOLET RV
VIOLET V
BLUE - VIOLET BV
BLUE B
BLUE - GREEN BG
GREEN G
YELLOW - GREEN YG

RO O

R YO

RV Y

V YG

BV G

B BG
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SECONDARY COLORS

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TERTIARY COLORS
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COLOR IS RELATIVE, HUE & VALUE.
 HUES
ALL THE THE COLORS
 VALUES
FROM BLACK TO WHITE
SATURATION
SATURATED HUE WITH GREY
TINT & SHADE
LIGHTNESS / DARKNESS OF HUE
GRADIENT
SMOOTH TRANSITION
 HUE

TINT TONE SHADE

TINTS TONES SHADES

WHITE BLACK

HUE + WHITE = TINTS HUE + GREY = TONES HUE + BLACK = SHADES

MONOCHROMATIC
COMPLEMENTARY
ANALOGOUS
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COMPLEMENTARY
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