Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
The colors generally attributed to be cool are green, blue, and violet. The colors usually perceived
as warm are red, yellow, and orange.
A color's perceived temperature is subject, like all color relationships, to relativity. Even colors
that are commonly experienced as cool or warm will demonstrate a shift in temperature when
placed adjacent to another, similar hue that is also intrinsically cool or warm—one will always ap-
pear cooler or warmer than the other. In this example, a very cool green—cool, that is, when next
to a warm orange—becomes unusually hot when next to an icy cool blue.
The Identity of Color
Chromatic Interaction
Color Systems
Emotions and Messages
