What Is Color?
50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color
Published on 28. April 2020
144 pages
978-1-68335-519-9 (ISBN)
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A comprehensive illustrated exploration of the fascinating science of color
Arielle and Joann Eckstut, authors of The Secret Language of Color, offer a thorough, readable, and highly visual exploration of the science of color. Organized by 50 of the most essential questions about color across a variety of fields-physics, chemistry, biology, technology, and psychology-this book examines how and why we see color; how color relates to light; what the real primary colors are; how biology, language, and culture affect the colors that we see; and much more. Full of clear and elegant infographics, What Is Color? is a must-have for artists and designers, scientists, students, and decorators, and anyone else whose work or play involves color.
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Arielle Eckstut is the author of 10 books including The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published. She is also the cofounder of the Book Doctors, which helps get writers' works published, and LittleMissMatched, a girls' lifestyle brand. Joann Eckstut is an award-winning interior designer as well as one of America's top color consultants. For the past 15 years, she has sat on the elite Interior Design Committee of the Color Association of the United States.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- 1. What Is Color?
- 2. Why Do We See Color?
- 3. How Is Color Related to Light?
- 4. How Do We Know That Sunlight Is Made Up of Many Colors?
- 5. What Is ROYGBIV?
- 6. What Are Spectral Colors?
- 7. How Is Wavelength Related to Color?
- 8. What Is the Visible Spectrum?
- 9. How Is Energy Related to Color?
- 10. How Does Light Turn Into Color?
- 11. How Does Our Visual System Adjust to Changes in Light?
- 12. Why Are Borders and Edges Key to Our Color Vision?
- 13. What Does the Retina Do?
- 14. What Are Rods?
- 15. What Are Cones?
- 16. What Is Trichromacy?
- 17. What Is Color Opponency?
- 18. What Is an Afterimage?
- 19. What Is Color Constancy?
- 20. What Is Simultaneous Contrast?
- 21. Why Does the Same Color Look Different Depending on the Light Source?
- 22. What Is Metamerism?
- 23. How Many Colors Can Humans See?
- 24. What Is Color Blindness?
- 25. How Is Human Vision Different from the Vision of Other Animals?
- 26. What Are Nonspectral Colors?
- 27. What Is Pigment?
- 28. What Is the Difference Between Violet and Purple?
- 29. What Is Black?
- 30. What Is White?
- 31. What Are Pastel Colors?
- 32. What Are Primary Colors?
- 33. What Are Complementary Colors?
- 34. What Is Additive Color?
- 35. What Is Subtractive Color?
- 36. What Is RGB?
- 37. What Is CMYK?
- 38. Why Do Colors Look Different on Screens Than on Paper?
- 39. What Is Hue?
- 40. What Is Value?
- 41. What Is Chroma?
- 42. What Is a Color Wheel?
- 43. What Is the CIE Color Space?
- 44. What Is the Munsell Color System?
- 45. What Are PMS Colors?
- 46. What Is the CRI?
- 47. What Are Warm and Cool Colors?
- 48. Can Color Affect Your Mood?
- 49. How Does Language Affect the Colors We See?
- 50. What Color Is the Dress?
- Acknowledgments
- Image credits
- Index of Searchable Terms
- Copyright Page
