Fabulous99.com | The design blog » design thought http://www.fabulous99.com Fabulous 99 a design blog by Imran Subhani Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:26:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Color Theory – Quick Reference Sheet For Designers http://www.fabulous99.com/2010/03/02/color-theory-quick-reference-sheet-for-designers/ http://www.fabulous99.com/2010/03/02/color-theory-quick-reference-sheet-for-designers/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:27:20 +0000 Imran Subhani http://www.fabulous99.com/?p=611 Color-Theory-Quick-Reference-Sheet

If you don’t want to read it and already know a lot about it you can skip to download links at the bottom of this article.

What is Color Theory:
I hope you know about Color Theory. Color theory is a body of practical guidance to the visual impacts of specific color combination and how to mix colors. Its a theory of visual arts and its principles first found in the books of of Leone Battista Alberti (c.1435) and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (c.1490). It developed as an independent artistic tradition with only superficial reference to colorimetric and vision science.

Could You Remember All Design Theories?
For designers in general and specifically graphic designers or web designers, there is a lot to keep in mind while you creating design, graphic design or web design. Some times one feel it’s hard enough to not forget all the theories of design / graphic design, web design best practices, and even Photoshop keyboard shortcuts.

Info Graphic is a solution:
But Jeff comes up with a solution to create the info graphics for all of the basics of color theory contained in one place – specifically, a cool info graphic-esque poster. This way, he reference to the things that you may have forget after design school. His output is: The Color Theory Quick Reference Poster for Designers.

You could print it or use as a desktop wallpaper. You can reference it to your clients, team members and other related people during meetings, phone calls, or any other sort interaction.

This color theory info graphic is all about:

Download Links:

I hope this will be true design asset for you. Here are the various files for download.

(All thanks should go to Jeff for such good effort.)

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