Product Description

The Complete Color Harmony is the newest book in Rockport Publishers? best-selling series including, Color Harmony and Color Harmony 2. This book expands upon the two previous editions for the most comprehensive color reference to date. Along with some basic color theory, the book provides hundreds of one, two, and three-color combinations selected to reflect a range of moods and adjectives.

This edition includes information on creating special effects using metallic and fluorescent color palettes, as well as an entirely new section devoted to the psychology of color. In What?s Your Color, authors Tina Sutton and Bride M. Whelan help readers determine their best colors and suggests why some colors may inspire their creativity while others don?t.

The book also includes two new color palette sections reflecting black and white as the color base, along with an expanded and updated Color Trends section that discusses not only trends and how they are predicted but gives advice on how to be a trend spotter.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71207 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

About the Author
Tina Sutton is the president and founder of Fashion Services, a consulting firm specializing in fashion and color marketing as well as tracking and forecasting consumer trends. She writes a weekly fashion column for the Boston Globe Magazine and speaks regularly on fashion and consumer trends. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Bride M. Whelan, an instructor at Parsons School of Design, New York City, teaches basic and advanced courses in color theory. She lectures extensively on a variety of design-related topics. For many years Whelan taught graphic design at Paier College of Art, New Haven, Connecticut. She lives in New York.

Customer Reviews

Great Value - delivered what I expected
I am designing a website and wanted a solid grounding in color theory, having found that books in the computer genre do not cover this topic well.

This book hit the mark, it provided me with 1) a basic grounding in color theory and the color wheel, 2) a no-nonsense, practical and thorough overview on the psychology of color, 3) a large range of categorized sample color combinations.

This book only provides the CMYK formula for its color swatches, and not the RGB formula. The book's theoretical sections also do not go into sufficient detail to explain the differences between the two formulations. This is not too-big-a problem as there are color formula conversion sites available on the web. This is the only reason why I have deducted one star. Perhaps a little unfair as computer nerds are not the book's target audience. I would give 4.5 stars in an ideal world.

I highly recommend this book if you are after a solid, practical and not too academic approach to color theory

Complete & very useful
I buy this book because the title is "The COMPLETE Color Harmony". There are so many other books about color on the shelf, but the word 'COMPLETE' really hit me. Altough i'm working in the design field but i found myself need more resources to this main subject, color harmony.

This book is great, it gives me new ideas of color harmony. I often use it for my projects. What i liked about this book is that they put 'Moods & Color' section in it. Powerful, rich, romantic, vital, earthy, friendly, soft, welcoming, etc....with other colours combinations too. 'The Psychology of color' also a great one too along with the 'Process color convertions chart'. This book is absolutely complete!

You will find a great introduction to color theory in this book.
If you are not a designer, and have little background in color theory then I would highly recommend this book.

I needed to design a book cover and was getting my CMYK's confused with my Pantone's and RGB's.

It is an easy read with many full color examples, plus the CMYK values.

You can use the color patterns as a template for your own projects (work smarter not harder).

A worthwhile addition to my marketing collection.

Cheers!