Saturday, 7 December 2013

Color Space and Good Design

Color Space
                    range of colors for a specific device or platform. Well known color spaces include sRGB, AdobeRGB and ProPhotoRGB.

                                               

sRGB
smaller Red Green Blue

sRGB is the standard RGB color space developed by HP and Microsoft. It provides the standard color working space available for all types of displays. sRGB is arguably the best working space for digital images and photographs to be viewed on computer screens but it is not the best for print and reproduction.


AdobeRGB


Adobe RGB carries most of the colors our printers can print but it does not carry every color that the printer can print. Developed by Adobe Systems, Adobe RGB has a wider color gamut compared to sRGB. Adobe RGB was designed specifically for photographers. 


ProPhotoRGB

ProPhoto carries a lot of colors – more than a typical printer can print but make no mistake that each color in it’s range can be printed. Developed by Kodak, ProPhoto RGB provides a wider spectrum of colors, a bigger playground for photographers to get true, rich colors.

CMYK

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black -- used in color printing.


Hexadecimals in colors

simple as; 0-9 and A-F

Black ----- #00       00         00 
                  RED GREEN   BLUE
White -----# FF      FF         FF


How C.R.A.P is you design?

Contrast - size, thickness, typeface... etc
Repetition - elements consistency
Alignment - everything on the page needs to be visually connected to something else, nothing should be out                      of place or distinct from all other design elements.
Proximity - creates related meaning: elements that are related should be grouped together, whereas separate                   design elements should have enough space in between to communicate they are different.








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