Reviews Color Harmony Color plays a critical role in graphic design. Different color schemes convey different moods, with psychological and cultural subtleties that can have a strong impact on viewers. Several recent books on color offer a helping hand. Each of the titles in Rockport's Color Harmony series by Martha Gill bears the apt subtitle A Guidebook for Creating Great Color Combinations . Bright and vibrant hues are featured in Jewels , while Naturals offers more rustic and earthy tones.
Pastels showcases schemes with varying degrees of white added to a wide range of hues.
Each book contains chapters with 72 associated color schemes. Using color on the Web means playing by a different set of rules, however. Hues in Jewels, Pastels and Naturals are listed with CMYK values. While these colors ca n be converted to RGB in image editors for Web readiness, they are not necessarily Web-safe. Browser or Web-safe color refers to the 216 colors read by most browser software.