{"id":216622,"date":"2010-01-23T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revmentor.com\/color-theory-quick-reference-poster-7"},"modified":"2010-01-23T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T17:41:00","slug":"color-theory-quick-reference-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/216622","title":{"rendered":"Color Theory Quick Reference Poster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paper-leaf.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/color-theory-quick-reference-poster\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Color Theory Quick Reference Poster<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><small>January 18, 2010 by Jeff<\/small><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It&rsquo;s always good to be able to articulate design choices to your clients; why you put something where, why you chose the color scheme you did, etc. This knowledge is one of the biggest differences between a designer and a non-designer. But there is a lot to remember when it comes to the realm of graphic design &ndash; so much so that it&rsquo;s pretty much impossible to remember everything from all the theories of graphic design, to web design best practices to Photoshop keyboard shortcuts.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, I decided it would be useful for me to have all of the basics of color theory contained in one place &ndash; specifically, a cool infographic-esque poster. This way, I can quickly reference things that may have slipped to the back of my mind since design school. The end result is this: <strong>The Color Theory Quick Reference Poster for Designers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ct_THUMB\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paper-leaf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ct_THUMB.jpg\" height=\"313\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The idea is that this graphic can be either printed out or used as a desktop wallpaper. During meetings, phone calls, or any other sort of client interaction, you can reference this poster if you need to &ndash; either for your own benefit, or to point something out to your client.<\/p>\n<p>The graphic contains info on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the basic color wheel<\/li>\n<li>passive vs. active colors<\/li>\n<li>cool vs. warm colors<\/li>\n<li>subtractive vs. additive color <\/li>\n<li>color types<\/li>\n<li>color relationships<\/li>\n<li>meanings attached to colors<\/li>\n<li>basic terms pertaining to color<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hopefully this will be as useful to you as I&rsquo;m hoping it will be to me. Here are the various files for download &ndash; please share, but don&rsquo;t pass off as your own!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paper-leaf.com\/samples\/designfreebies\/ColorTheory_Print.pdf\" title=\"Print-Ready Color Theory PDF\" >Print-ready, PDF<\/a> (11&Prime; by 17&Prime;, 300DPI)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paper-leaf.com\/samples\/designfreebies\/ColorTheory_Print_White.pdf\" title=\"Print-Ready Color Theory PDF, White\" >Print-ready, white background, PDF<\/a> (11&Prime; by 17&Prime;, 300DPI &ndash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paper-leaf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ColorTheory_Screen_White.jpg\" title=\"Color Theory Poster - Preview White\" >click to view<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paper-leaf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ct_1920.jpg\" title=\"1920x1200\" >1920X1200 Wallpaper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paper-leaf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ct_1680.jpg\" title=\"1680x1050\" >1680X1050 Wallpaper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paper-leaf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ct_1440.jpg\" title=\"1440x900\" >1440X900 Wallpaper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paper-leaf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ct_1280.jpg\" title=\"1280x800\" >1280X800 Wallpaper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paper-leaf.com\/samples\/designfreebies\/ColorTheory.eps\" title=\"EPS file\" >EPS file<\/a> (if you want to make your own changes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paper-leaf.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/color-theory-quick-reference-poster\/\">paper-leaf.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Rev developers: check it out. Good to know as CMYK comes to Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>GREAT poster!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revmentor.com\/color-theory-quick-reference-poster-7\">Permalink<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revmentor.com\/color-theory-quick-reference-poster-7#comment\">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Color Theory Quick Reference Poster January 18, 2010 by Jeff It&rsquo;s always good to be able to articulate design choices to your clients; why you put something where, why you chose the color scheme you did, etc. This knowledge is one of the biggest differences between a designer and a non-designer. But there is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}