Color Matters Project

For this assignment you will be creating in InDesign, you will be creating a tweleve page booklet about color. In this document I want its content to be all about color using some of the images you made in Illustrator and others you will design in InDesign. Please go to the website http://www.colormatters.com for the main content for your document. I will be giving you al of the requirements of the various features in InDesign I want you to use. To start with create the look and feel of your booklet using Master Pages and set up your numbering pages. I will go over the requirements in class as well.

Tints, Tones and Shades: These terms are often used inappropriately but they describe fairly simple color concepts. The important thing to remember is how the color varies from its original hue. If white is added to a color, the lighter version is called a "tint". If the color is made darker by adding black, the result is called a "shade". And if gray is added, each gradation gives you a different "tone."

 Tints (adding white to a pure hue)

 Shades (adding black to a pure hue)

 Tones (adding gray to a pure hue) 

Complementary Colors: When two or more colors "go together," they are said to be "complementary." This is completely subjective and open to interpretation and differences in opinion.  

Primary Colors: This definition really depends on what type of medium of color we are using. The colors that are seen when sunlight is split by a prism are sometimes called the spectral colors. These are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. These RGB colors are often reduced to three "red, green, and blue-violet" which are the primary colors for the additive color system (light). The primary colors for the subtractive color system (paint/pigment) are "cyan, magenta and yellow." Notice that "red, yellow and blue" should never be used as the combination for color primaries!

RGB, CMYK: Make a color wheel for each of the two kinds of color wheels. Also explain what the differences are.

You may also want to include a glossary of color terms in one or two of your pages.

Indesign Tools and Features to use in your design:

• At least two different type wraps.
• Two or three different Pantone Colors
• Use two or three different StyleSheets
• Two Master Pages
• Numbering of Pages
• Two or three captions for your images
• A page to talk about Albers and Itten (you will need to look them up as part of your research.

This portion of the project will be due at the beginning of next week. We will be adding to it next week with other color assignments