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Colour An Introduction
Colour is a powerful tool that is influenced by cultural, religious, political and social factors. It can affect moods and communicate meanings that vary across contexts. Colours have established associations with certain meanings. The document outlines primary, secondary, tertiary and complementary colours, and discusses how colour combinations like analogous colours create harmony. It provides examples of cultural meanings typically linked to different colours like red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.
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Colour An Introduction
- 1. Colour anintroduction
- 2. Colour is... ...a powerful tool ...tied to religious, cultural, political and social influences
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- 5. It Has Cultural Significance
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- 7. Religion can also belinked to colour
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- 16. primary colours +secondary colours = Tertiary Colours
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- 21. Primary Secondary Secondary Primary Primary Secondary
- 22. Primary Tertiary Tertiary Secondary Secondary Tertiary Tertiary Primary Primary Tertiary Tertiary Secondary
- 23. Complementary Colours are opposites on a colour wheel.
- 33. Complementary Colours can create harmony.
- 34. Analogous Colours aregroups of 3 colours.
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- 63. + white + black
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- 67. creative young visible bright cheerful light weight curious coward playful nutritious ill expanding YELLOW
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- 74. Primary Tertiary Tertiary Secondary Secondary Tertiary Tertiary Primary Primary Tertiary Tertiary Secondary
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- 78. Resources Colour Matters http://www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html Colour inMotion http://www.mariaclaudiacortes.com/colors/Colors.swf How Colour Communicates Meaning by Rob Mills http://carsonified.com/blog/design/color/how-colour-communicates-meaning/