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Colour Analysis Charts by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1902)
- keypusher 11y agoAny indication of the process used to perform this color analysis? Seems like an interesting technique for breaking down the palette and percentages. Effective templates could easily be generalized for non-specialized designers to work from.
- jacobolus 11y agoThe author eyeballed the sources and manually decided on an abstracted color scheme representation. (Remember, no computers in 1902.) You could do the same thing today in a more automatic way by using by using some kind of clustering algorithm on the colors of pixels. I would recommend first applying some kind of bilateral-filter blur, then clustering the pixels (or some random sample of pixels), representing each cluster by its centroid in a roughly perceptually uniform color space (e.g. CIELAB or CIECAM02), and then apportioning squares to each cluster based on the relative number of pixels included.
- melling 11y agoHere are some other resources if you're interested in learning about color: https://github.com/melling/DesignNotes_MobileAndWebApps/blob/master/color.org https://github.com/melling/DesignNotes_MobileAndWebApps/blob...
- jacobolus 11y agoAlbers is great (non-dogmatic, focus on learning through practice), but ugh, Itten is such bullshit (an arbitrary system not grounded in concrete evidence about human perception). No offense, but 50% of your links are pseudoscientific nonsense. In my opinion, the best online source about color is http://www.handprint.com/LS/CVS/color.html http://www.handprint.com/LS/CVS/color.html
- melling 11y agoThanks. I added your link. I don't know enough about color, or design in general, to comment. I'll create a Short List of recommended references once I get a better handle on it.
- triplesec 11y agoOriginal post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11321027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11321027