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What's a good neutral color to use as a background for a foreground of multicolor primary colors? Something with some color to it, but doesn't draw attention away from the foreground?

>> No.1686853

Ever seen a colorwheel?
Did you know that if you mix paints according to the various popular color schemes, they gray out into very sophisticated shades? And you can push them further by adding small amounts of white, black, gray, or browns?

>> No.1686856

I understand that I need to add some grays to push the color back, but admist a clash of colored objects of different hues, I was thinking which color would look nicer even desaturated. For instance, i was leaning toward a light blue, simple because it's already a calm tone.

>> No.1686858

>>1686856
I assume you have a coherent scheme, so why not mix the primary colors of it together to use as the background?

>> No.1686859

>>1686858
To be more specific, this is for an interactive media where objects of various colors, primarily of primary colors, will be showing up constantly on the screen.

>> No.1686862

>>1686850
if you're literally only using primaries in the foreground then you'd think using the secondaries in the bg would balance it out. although i imagine that'd be too loud without some muting.

>> No.1687173

>>1686850
reality is rarely so colorful, and if it was, you'd have less to worry about.

>> No.1687364

I'll just ask this here instead of creating a thread.

What are some good books to learn color?

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1687365

Color is relative, you can't just ask for a "good color" because a good color in one context is a shit color in another.

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>> No.1687376

>>1687364

Bump

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1687406

a and b same 'color'

>> No.1687435

>>1687406
what the fuck thats some black magick

>> No.1687445

>>1687435
Life is but a dream.

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>>1687368
>>1687406

>I actually had to open up photoshop and check the RGB values since I was convinced they were different

>mfw the truth

>> No.1687447

>>1687445
Don't even get me started with that.

>> No.1687449

>>1687446
Its better when you grab a piece of one square and slowly slide it over to the other one.

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>>1687446
same here

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>>1687449

>> No.1687542

>>1687365
that's wild, you're think it'd be darker...

i'd never figure that out through observation alone.

>> No.1687548

Color. How does it work guys?

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It really depends if you're talking about light or physical painted elements made with pigments or whatever organic material an object is made of. For now the tricky part is why the colors of physical elements aren't the colors being spoonfed to you on a pack of crayons.

When observing you might see both color events going on at once, which is actually happening all the time. For example, you might have truly light cool blue walls in your room, but rarely will you ever see them in their true pigment, because of another physical object of color in your environment. Maybe you have varnished wooden flooring or green vinyl tiles and the reflecting lights of whatever is outside bouncing all about your room.

What could be outside? Say sunlight might change positions as the earth completes a revolution, and the atmosphere might completely shift from a cool blue morning haze to a green haze if you have trees and grass vegetation. Or the pink haze of dawn and/or dusk, maybe the opposite building do you has bright red roofing tiles and your entire room looks pink, despite the fact that you have BLUE WALLS! But when clouds are overcast, you actually can see objects close to their true colors and pigments, Because everything is being evenly lit, for the most part.

And what happens when the sun goes down, and you need to turn on your artificial lights? Are you working with cool emitting florescent lamps, usually seen in offices and schools? That might be different from a warm light emitted from a now extinct incandescent bulb or the newer spiral bulbs. (By the way I believe they sell true light bulbs, no idea what they are called.) And what about those street lamps outside, emitting an amber glow against your walls?
>B-but crayola said grass was supposed to be green!

It may be helpful to play around with the painter wheel. You can adjust value hue and saturation on the spot. You can buy some colorwheels at DIY stores or just make your own. Just observe everything.

>> No.1687825

Anything off grey is good. So pick a color and wash it down with grey, or pick a grey and drop a color in. Then again this is one of the vaguest questions of the day.

>> No.1687837

>>1687368
I could tell they were both grey but couldn't spot that they were the same value grey. The other optical illusions are just pure mind fucks.
It's absolutely fascinating how we perceive color in relation to other colors around it.