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Understanding colors


Kindly point towards theory/material to read for understanding colors and what makes a good color combinations. Mind it that I am not interested in say "Color combinations for web application" etc. More of the lines of say "Colors and humans".

Material free to read is what i am looking for.


Solution

  • Color and humans is a very complex topic. Scientists do not completely understand how we humans perceive color. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychophysics)

    There are a lot good books out there but some free resources I use:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_vision

    http://handprint.com/HP/WCL/wcolor.html

    http://www.efg2.com/Lab/Library/Color/

    http://www.cis.rit.edu/fairchild/