During the lecture, we discussed how colour can have meaning and highlight important information. We focused on using different colour ranges. We also discussed how 8% of men and 5% of women are colourblind meaning that we have to have our colours accessible to people with colourblindness.
These analogous colours help create a visually pleasing design as they are beside each other on the colour wheel, meaning they all match. It helps create a low-contrast design colour which looks more natural, these colours can be found in nature. These colours are all cohesive and work together to create a pleasing colour range.
The complementary colours are the colours that are opposite on the colour wheel such as blue and orange. They are used in design to help create a visually interesting design as the colours create a high contrast between one another.
Monochromatic colour is the range of colours that all have the same hue but have different tones and shades of the hue. These can be made by adding white to the colour. Monochromatic colours allow the eye to focus on the main subject of the design. Monochromatic colours can create a sense of harmony and peacefulness.
Adobe colours can be used to create different colour pallettes including analogous, monochromatic and complementary colour ranges, this is useful in design as it helps visualise what colours work well together.
Colour blindness is a colour vision deficiency meaning that you see colours differently than most other people. it can make it harder to depict what colour you are looking at. some colours can also appear more or duller. colour blindness is split into different areas where it is hard to see a certain colour such as Deateranomaly, protanomaly and both which is the deficiency to see colours of red and green. Tritanolaly and tritanopia which is the difficulty in distinguishing between blues and yellows. the complete colour deficiency is called monochromacy and or chromatopsia but this is very rare. in design, it is important to understand this so your design can be accessible to all. There have been categories made to help decipher the level of accessibility including A, AA, and AAA which is the highest level. we must avoid combinations that would be hard for colour-blind people to understand and look at.
