Art: Color Theory

This tool allows designers to create color schemes using a color wheel, which can then be exported to Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign.

Explanation of color theory

Generates color schemes based on one color with variations.

This website features several articles on several pigments, providing information on history of use, technical details, and how each pigment is made.

Color has the ability to create emotion and influence our moods. Color is a powerful tool in interior design and fashion. Interior designer Brandi Hagen discusses: history of color and the development of color theories; the color system: hue, value, and chroma; color wheel; warm & cool colors; and color schemes.

Use this video to introduce your students to the elements of design: color, line, shape, form, pattern, and texture. In addition to examples drawn from customary design disciplines...

Featuring a professor and students from the Parsons School of Design, this program examines the elements of design. It discusses line; shape, including two- and three-dimensional, geometric, and organic; visual and tactile textures; size; and such color principles as value, hue, complimentary, analogous, tri...