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A bleak, colorful winter
By: Tina Seward
Tags: Color, Christmas, Fighting Bleakness

c2020 by Tina Seward

My one-woman assault on predictions of a bleak season.

Recent headlines predict “a bleak winter,” mainly due to a spike in COVID infections and the arrival of the flu season, prompting concerns of a “twindemic” of both COVID and flu.

The aftermath of a contentious election (the outcome of which some still want to contest) isn’t helping. In my home state of Georgia, election season is still not over. We have a good fortune (note the sarcasm) of being the site of not one, but two runoff elections for the United States Senate. My son recently compared the campaign ads to a war. He’s not wrong.

And while the major protests against racism during the spring and summer have died down, racism still remains.

The mental health of the world can be summed up by Charlie Brown’s complaint to Lucy in A Charlie Brown Christmas: “I’m in sad shape.”

I’m only one person, and there’s not that much I can do to change a lot of things. But to me, the word “bleak” brings to mind a landscape of nothing but black, white, and gray, with a gray sky, trash-littered streets, and people walking along with their heads down and their hands in their pockets.

For me, an antidote to this picture popped into my head:

Color.

Now, I am not an interior decorator nor am I a fashion designer. My resources are limited. But I just decided that I was not going to let that stop me from finding ways to bring color to a bleak winter.

So last week, I fired the first shot in my one-woman war against bleakness.

I went to Walmart — on Black Friday, no less — and bought an ugly Christmas sweater.

It’s bright red with green trim, decorated with Christmasy stuff, and the crowning touch is the jingle bells that announce your presence when you move.

Obnoxiously perfect, right?

Well, the bells are going to have to go, because I think the sound of jingle bells everywhere I walk is not only going to get on others’ nerves, it will eventually get on my nerves as well.

But the color? That works.

2020 has been a long, long, bleak year. And winter is coming. And although I am not a fan of Game of Thrones, I know the phrase “winter is coming” and it that context, that phrase looks and sounds ominous.

A possible vaccine may be the light at the end of the tunnel, but it’s still a long, long tunnel to go through before people can start getting it and before we know if it’ll work. Normal is not here yet.

I need an antidote to bleakness. So I choose a color.

My husband said that the best antidote to bleakness is cultivating an attitude of joy and gratefulness. And he is right. An “attitude of gratitude” is a good weapon to have in an arsenal against bleakness.

But an obnoxiously colorful Christmas sweater can’t hurt, either.
Skin Color is a Sweet Spot for the Politicians
By: Debesh Choudhury
Tags: Politics, Society, Skin Color, Humanity First, Colors

Skin Color is a Sweet Spot for the Politicians

Text and image by the author

Color is a political funnel to collect votes and win elections

Skin color is not a creation of humans. They created voting norms and election rules. The elected members of the government are playing with the color of human skin for years. Many things have changed. But color politics remained at the top of the election campaigns.

Color and allied topics revolve around human rights

I work in the field of science and technology. But I do care for societal issues. How can I be aloof about the issues connected to human life and society?

Following are the relevant titles I published on Medium.

Black-and-White, Color, and Life
Epiphany: The Pretext of Colors in Love
By: Jaye Vee Magpili
Tags: Epiphany, Late Night Epiphanies, Colors, Thought Piece

For a brief moment, there were colors expanding in the manner of a redshift — stretching away from its point of origin and taking up space unto the unknown.

But it wasn’t dark matter that caused this occurrence. As mentioned, it wasn’t something exotic but typical and yet, complex, and concrete — they were colors.

The view of a collapsing nebula forming crimson stars is something spectacular to witness whilst with her sitting under a sycamore tree; and so by holding her hand while observing the peach sunset palette kissing the horizon of the sea; and the latter indigo that tinged the sky that signifies a forehead kiss for a goodnight sleep; from dusk ’til dawn, I ought to love the woman of pure quality. And I see colors — complex, and concrete.

For she caused the colors to expand — she filled this stark life of mine with the hue of an extraordinary blend.

And blue never seemed to be that sad anymore.
It is Yellow Day.
By: Covoji Learning
Tags: Preschool, Family, Activity, Colors, Parents

Color Learning for kids.

Have a “Yellow Day”, where you child can wear yellow, eat yellow foods, do lots of things outside in the sun.

Exploring Yellow

🍌Peel yellow bananas.

🍋 Make lemonade.

🎨 Paint with yellow.

🌻 Look for yellow flower.

👂 Listen to yellow nursery rhyme: https://youtu.be/xY9XfmLqyrw

👩‍💻 Read out yellow words: https://learning.covoji.com/math-zone/the-colour-yellow/

⌛Sort out yellow Lego.

🌽 Make popcorn from yellow kernels: https://learning.covoji.com/curious-world/where-is-popcorn/

💊 Add drops of yellow food coloring to the water.

Yellow

By: Patricia Morrison See a yellow sign

Smell a yellow daffodil

Touch a yellow pencil

Hear a yellow canary

Taste a yellow candy — https://learning.covoji.com/english/delicious-sweet-treats/

Have fun!
Postdoc : After 5 years in university research.
By: Frank Appiah
Tags: Computers, Shapes, Abstract Art, Colors, Graphic Design

By Frank Appiah

Video: [512kb] https://twitter.com/frankappiah/status/1334486043555471362

I have delved into graphics research for 10 years at King’s college London after my master dissertation in 2010. I worked on electronic Game using graphic objects to tell a navigating story with auto-navigate buttons(North, South, East, West). On every button click some selected data and image displays. On display, a navigation button is activated to enable the user to select the next game information. This all about the automated navigation game on autoshow button on play. After I decided to go more into graphics research. I recalled from previous discovery in line graph precisely slope or gradient calculations. I did this as a somophore in undergraduate in matrix computation classroom. There is much fun in 3d rotation research. Good geometry has evolve from research in the university. I enrolled again in 2014 at University of London to study 3D Rotation of Line Graph. We think no far from the basic idea of line graph. It is an output of computing Abstract. This means there is a constant object from the rendering on computer. Using a tool, one can draw a line graph and rotate in 3 dimensional space. There is vase vector methods in the analysis of line graph.

I called this “ Domineering Graphics”. The figure is alike a dome shape.

The result in this news is due to image manipulation of the rendering after the line graph rotation. I show a short animation video stored at Twitter media on the splendid sight of Abstract art from a computing machine.

This is a work of sought of something of color and a research fellow in computer graphics. He is also a member of computer science .

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TM’s algorithmically-arranged design for Fedrigoni 365/2021 means no two books are the same
By: The Brand Identity
Tags: Typography, Books, Design, Colors, Graphic Design

Each year, leading paper manufacturer and London-based studio invite UK-based designers, illustrators and photographers to contribute to the spectacle that is Fedrigoni 365 — an annual calendar that thrives on a sense of community. Usually filled with 365 contributors in reference to the book’s primary function, 2021’s editions are instead permeated with just shy of 1000 individual designs, inspired by a desire to be as inclusive as possible amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

How can 1000 designs fit into 365 days you may ask — with the solution lying in Fedrigoni’s range of digital papers and intelligent five-colour printing from Ricoh’s Pro C7200X machine. As a result, each 461-page OTA-bound book within the 4000 copy print run is entirely unique — from cover-to-cover.

To cater for such variability, and had to present contributors with an even more constrained brief than previous years. Instead of a specific date, every creative was assigned a number from 1–31 and one of a multitude of seed words to act as an inspirational starting point. Three hundred and sixty-five of the resulting designs were then algorithmically compiled from the overall pool of submissions into each book, with no fixed running order or preferences applied.

For each of Fedrigoni 365’s four editions, have faced the challenged of defining a new and exciting visual concept. “The paper always comes first,” Creative Director Danny McNeil explains, adding that they are “always spoilt for choice in that department.” Fedrigoni 365/2021 takes advantage of three of Fedrigoni’s digital papers, with the smooth yet tactile Freelife Vellum used for the inside pages, the glossy Splendorlux used for the gradient-filled covers, and the translucent Golden Star K providing the finishing touch as the dust jacket.

In keeping with the individual theme set by the book’s inside pages, each cover utilises two different gradient meshes randomly placed together with generative code. The result of neon and CMYK inks, the colours are unquestionably electric on top of their glossy base. The dust jackets act as the final piece of the puzzle, displaying the entire range of contributors’ names but, in another unprecedented twist, only highlighting those found within the specific book in question.

McNeil explains that the production of each book as its own unique entity “simply wouldn’t have happened” without Ricoh’s expertise and enthusiasm. Inspired by the creative challenge posed to them, Ricoh came on board during the early stages of the project as its print and technology partner, in doing so being instrumental in a production that McNeil describes as “not commercially viable at all” due to its sizeable digitally-printed run.

Fedrigoni 365/2021 is availably to purchase exclusively from Counter-Print, with all profits donated to the Teenage Cancer Trust.

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The next big thing in digital typography
By: Mostafa Abasiry
Tags: Fonts, SVG, Arabic, Opentype Svg, Colors

Lot of creatives have been questioning each other recently “What’s an OpenType-SVG font?”. The OpenType-SVG (AKA Color Font or Chromatic Font) is a powerful new technology that allows colors, textures, gradients and even transparency features to be embedded into a single font file. With this technology, font characters are no longer restricted by the usual black and white contour shapes.

Although color fonts are in the stage of development by large corporates and there is no one single universal format that is agreed upon to represent this technology, there are two notable and ready-to-use color font formats. The first is “SVG-TTF” which is originally co-developed by Adobe and Mozilla. The second file format is “COLR” which is introduced by Microsoft few years ago. Both of these formats support the multiple color palettes as well as transparency features. According to Adobe, color fonts will appear just like typical fonts in programs’ font menus — but they may not display their full potential, since many programs don’t yet have full support for the color components.

How color fonts are designed?

An SVG color font is basically a font that is composed of multiple layers. Each of these layers features a single color (or a transparency value). To create a color font, a traditional font design program such as FontLab Studio, Fontographer or Glyphs can be used. The output should consist of multiple fonts that can be later overlaid by any external tool for merging fonts in order to compose a functional SVG font. There are also program extensions such as Fontself Maker that allow to create simple color fonts in programs like Photoshop or Illustrator.

How useful are color fonts?

Color Fonts can display more graphic properties which opens the door to a broad spectrum of creative ideas that may have been difficult to achieve in the past. Design wise, this technology can open up many opportunities in graphic design as well as in other fields. For instance, a colorful logotype can be the key ingredient of an attractive brand identity in which all brand elements are linked and united by a single OpenType-SVG font. A color font can easily establish such unity and consistency to the brand due to the fact that it comes with an embedded color palette that remains unchanged in spite of the medium it has been displayed on. The same applies to web design and publication.

Learn more about Color Font technology from Adobe Typekit

Published By Mostafa El Abasiry
Uncertainty
By: Gayathri Vijay
Tags: Deep, Future, Dreams, Deep Thoughts, Colors

There’s undeniably a charge. A charge that pulls things forwards. Pushes all of us deeper. Deeper into the future. A future in which there’s only going up. Up a ladder where there’s no going back. Going back can’t lead to anything. But anything from the future could always be considered a chance. A chance that can make us or break us. Break us into a million pieces. A million pieces that can actually be put back together by yourself. By yourself, when you explore deep seated fears, newer horizons, bigger avenues. Bigger avenues that help you piece yourself, to grow. To grow in a world of uncertainty, with the will to thrive. To thrive, to flourish in a world of impatience. Impatience to propel oneself just a little bit farther. Farther and farther we go, more and more experiences we gain.

We gain, we give, we share, we create. We create a world that is somehow united yet so divided. Divided in thoughts, in behavior, in actions and reactions. Reactions to almost everything, because now we hardly stop to listen. To listen to the birds chirp, to people when they speak up, when they talk. They talk and talk and talk and again, fail to listen. To listen to the cries of the unspoken. Unspoken words that would mean a thousand different pleas, emotions and feelings. Feelings that were repressed, suppressed, made unheard because of the unexpected repercussions.

Repercussions can be mended. Mended with hope and time. Time that heals all wounds. Wounds that develop from war. War within self or war with the world. The world that listens to none and worries for none. Nonetheless it works at a mind-numbing pace. Pace yourself in this world that is so uncertain. Uncertain about who lives to see the next dawn and who dies with today’s dusk. Dusk, that leads to new hope and ends some.

Sometimes it is best to let go. Let go of the pain, let go of the past, and let go of fears. Fears of the unknown, fears of the baggage we carry, and fears of regret. Regret that tends to arise when you don’t choose what you really want with all your heart, and tends to threaten to end the good things you have got going in your life.

Your life that only you can live. Live to the fullest and try everything. Everything under the sun and out of your comfort zone. A comfort zone that can be shattered if you will it to. To finally be able to utterly, thoroughly and absolutely experience all colors that life has to offer. An offer that literally is once in a lifetime…
Scouting for accessible colors
By: Lukas Kühne
Tags: WCAG, UI, UX, Accessibility, Colors

Let’s talk about the colors

The purple (# 6328e0) is, so far, an unusual choice. It has a high saturation (S82%) and is not dark (B88%). It is a very noticeable color that stands out due to its high saturation. This color is easy to read despite the high brightness in combination with white.

Color contrast #6328e0

The green (# 00875a), which is labeling sustainability products, is also highly saturated (S99%). Compared to the purple, it is much darker (B53%). This is no surprise because most colors have to be relatively dark to achieve a sufficient contrast ratio. To keep the color clear, the darkness was compensated with the high saturation. For a color that is supposed to stand for “sustainability,” the green shade is astonishingly blue, and therefore, it looks less natural.

Color contrast green (#00875a) and orange (#ff4e00e)

Orange (# ff4e00) is the brand color of the website. It is used very rarely and serves, for example, to mark the number of products in the shopping cart and as part of sub-brands and services. This color only partially meets the contrast requirements. The combination of white text and orange background would only be rich in contrast if large font-sizes were used.

A word about the “Myth.”

We might notice a phenomenon looking at the orange. Subjectively, this color combination will appear quite legible to many. Of course, WCAG AA is a good starting point for choosing colors. But we still have to check the selection of colors subjectively. Conversely to this example, there are also color contrasts that are sufficient according to the contrast value but are subjectively rather challenging to read. There is a good article on the subject that illustrates the problems with WCAG. However, I would advise against understanding WCAG as “not working.” It is a guideline that should technically show us how good contrast is between text and background. We should see it as a good anchor in discussing accessible color rather than an ultimate recommendation. A decision for or against a color should be made by testing our content with people.

Check color conflicts with Adobe Color.

We now know that the color of this website could mostly be considered accessible due to its contrast. Before we follow this interpretation, we still have to check to what extent these colors offer sufficient distinguishability for all forms of color blindness. This can be found out quickly using the Adobe Accessibility Tool. The colors are readable and there are no conflicts. All colors can be displayed simultaneously on one screen and remain distinguishable for all users. One of the most familiar visual impairments is the red-green weakness. The more yellowish orange (# ff4e00) and the blue-tending green (# 00875a) are not a problem in this case.
What does every color mean?
By: Md Shahab Uddin
Tags: Design Thinking, Design, Web Design, Colors, Graphic Design

It doesn’t matter whether you are a graphics designer or a web developer, you must deal with colors. Colors are a language itself. Every color has its meaning and conveys a message to the audience. Colors are a tool for non-verbal communication with the audience. That is why you must know the meaning of the basic 7 colors.

It will help you to equip yourself with the proper message to convey. Here is the meaning of basic colors.

The color meaning of Red and Green

Conclusion

Don’t try to memorize this. Just take a look and try to remember the main message of every color. You will forget easily If you read it once. Try to read this page one time each day for a week. After a week, you will get an idea of what every color means without memorizing it. Thank you very much for reading. Follow me for more articles.
Мини-заметка о расхождении в стиле или о жёлтом цвете
By: Граф Дизайна
Tags: Design, Identity, Yellow, Colors, Advice

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Why “good/bad” design guides aren’t always good for: Color Theory
By: Ryan Houk
Tags: UI Design, Design, UX, Visual Design, Colors

Don’t get stuck in a color box

Spotify is another example of a company whose brand is full of vibrant and often intentionally sharp contrasting colors.

Mosaic poster of Spotify artists

So the actual right/wrong is to avoid natural colors and instead use only vibrant colors? Nope! Again, this is about your brand and what you want to communicate to your customers. There are just as many examples of natural earthy tones like Venmo, Amazon or Dropbox for example.

Venmo, Amazon and Dropbox logos

No, you do not have to use specific colors for specific industries

I’ll preface with agreeing that different colors and temperatures can communicate all sorts of subtle and psychological cues. But telling designers which colors to use for types of industries is problematic. Here’s another post I found telling designers the “correct” colors to use for financial apps.

Screenshot of right/wrong color post

Imagine you’re creating a new financial app and need to stand out. You do an audit of the competition and discover every app is branded with some variation of blue. Are you going to create yet another blue branded app? Not if you want to stand out.

What about green being associated with money (in the US)? What if blue is simply a departure from your brand color like with TurboTax’s red identity? We want customers to associate a color with our product, not necessarily our industry as a whole.
Mango Morning
Tags: Mangoes, Poetry, Poetry Prompt, Morning, Colors

Thank you for reading. Thank you to Lucy The Eggcademic (she/her) for tagging me. I must admit when I wrote this I believed the prompt had to do with fruits and gravity, but her prompt is ‘what food reminds you of science?’.

Perhaps the same thing 🤷‍♂️, as always never sure if I’m actually responding to the prompt.

Here is her piece

Tagging: Susannah MacKinnie, Rochelle Silva, and James G Brennan apologies, I think I’ve tagged you many times over — perhaps I love your writing a bit too much 😬
Color Her Melancholy
By: Terry Mansfield
Tags: Poetry, Feelings, Poem, Life, Colors

Color Her Melancholy

Oh, melancholy

So, so not jolly

Yet nothing to do

But color her blue

Blue is a color

Unlike another

That color called red

An emblem of dread

She wants to be green

All fresh and serene

Alas, true folly

She’s melancholy
Красный — энергия, страсть и опасность
Tags: Coca Cola, Color, Branding, Red

Sound Off Co-Founder. Design/ux, philosophy, gardening, meditation, magic, startups, well-being, some other words.
Color 101: the basis for UI designers
Tags: UI Design, Fundamentals, User Experience, Digital Design, Colors

“People decide whether or not they like a product in 90 seconds or less. 90% of that decision is based solely on color.” — 99designs

Photo by Ramakant Sharda on Unsplash

I’m pretty sure everyone’s got a favorite color. Like everyone else, I had a favorite number, color, pen, and even a favorite colored folding-paper looking back at my childhood. In my opinion, the word ‘favorite’ doesn’t mean I dislike the rest but rather represents the current interests. I remember being obsessed with blue (light blue, to be specific) in 4th grade, then with lime-green in 7th, and now… with lavender!

Colors impact the vast majority of our life, and I’d like to share some fundamentals of colors to take advantage of when designing user interfaces.

Color Wheel

We’ve come across this at some point in our life. Yes, this is the color wheel. First created by Sir Isaac Newton, he mapped out the color spectrum in a circle. To this date, designers refer back to the color wheel to identify color harmony.

As you see, the color wheel consists of primary colors, secondary colors, and tertiary colors. A combination of two primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) create secondary colors (orange, green, and purple). Tertiary colors form when primary color and secondary colors mixes.

Color Schemes

There are numerous color schemes out there, but I’m here to share some of the basis. When you walk into a room and find it pleasing, it probably means that whoever decorated the place did a fantastic job finding the balance of colors. Also known as the color schemes, defined as a combination of one or more hues from the color wheel.

Color Schemes

Complementary Colors

You can create a complementary color scheme by choosing colors on the opposite side of the color wheel. As this provides strong contrast, I recommend using lower saturation of the hues for the sake of every eye’s comfort.

Analogous Colors

An analogous color scheme is a combination of colors that are side-by-side on a color wheel. These closely related colors typically send off a sense of harmony and pleasing to the eyes.

Triadic Colors

The triadic color scheme consists of three colors equally spaced colors in the color wheel. To create one, simply take an even triangle and place it on a color wheel. Keep in mind that triadic colors tend to be vibrant and dynamic.
7 Facts about Colours
By: Fiona Henderson
Tags: Did You Know, Facts, Colour, Colors

Red and Yellow Stimulate Hunger

2. Red is the First Colour a Baby Sees!

3. White Is The Safest Car Colour

4. Colour Blind People Have Better Night Vision

5. “eigengrau” the Grey You See When You Turn Off the Lights

6. The most popular colour is blue

7. Colours don’t exist! They’re all in your head
Earthstuff
By: Victoria Todd
Tags: Love, Colors, Poetry, Earth

All this earthstuff gives birth, I think. Light gives birth to grass-tips and silver lake tops; dark clouds give birth to the pendulum of color and yellow rubber boots; like rain gives birth to window taps and red Tempranillos drunk on the floor and shorter Saturdays; and shorter Saturdays give birth to longer Sunday guitar chords strum at a slow, slow pace and buttered mushrooms in a slick, dark pan.

Everything comes from what was supposed to come before it, and that is how the whole of the world was made. From the natural stuff: magma, waves, stone, cooling, drying. To organic: mushrooms, tails, lungs, thumbs. To material: cooking wear, typewriters, airplanes. Until we could feel it, the immaterial longing birthed from the natural beginning: illusion, shame, painting, feeling abandoned, feeling found. Be it redeemable and lasting or like dew on grass beside the Guadalquivir, it will always be coming and going, transforming. It has only been an hour since I began to drink this, and now is when I’m thanking the sky for being my mother, who is where all things came from not knowing they hadn’t been.

And that is time: hours giving way to hours who hadn’t known they were measured and had expected to live for days, and both did and didn’t. And always me to you. In and without time, always me to you.
The Story Of Colors
By: John Smith
Tags: Colors

It was a cold winter night in Amsterdam, the streets were dark and empty. As I was making my way downtown, I had this odd feeling of being watched. So, naturally I payed attention to all noises and potential movements around me. All of a sudden someone jumps out of the bushes on the side and throws a white snowball at me. To be continued….
Smile Back
By: Suntonu Bhadra
Tags: Happiness, Flowers, Smile, Self, Colors

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Editor’s Pick: Dipping Into the Portfolio of Another of Illumination’s Poets
Tags: Nature, Poetry, Illumination, Colors, Poetry On Medium

Editor’s Pick: Dipping Into the Portfolio of Another of Illumination’s Poets

Photo by Rick L on Unsplash

This is the fourth of my series of reviews of regular contributors of poetry to Illumination. The image I chose shows an explosion of fresh colours and I think you will agree after reading some of Dr. Preeti Singh’s work that it is a fitting tribute. Her focus on every day objects bring us refreshing and intimate descriptions with an emphasis on joy. I certainly find her work uplifting.

Here is her homage to the rose, a flower that is an international emblem of love.

A Rose is a Beauty of Nature — ILLUMINATION — Medium

A haiku on the theme of home. It is wonderful how so few words can cause you to stop in your tracks and momentarily reset your emotions.

The Abandoned Child — ILLUMINATION — Medium

Colour features brightly in this muse on the subject of the exotic male peacock, strutting his stuff.

The Peacock is a Proud Champion — ILLUMINATION — Medium
Final Submission of FVD module
By: Bhawna Tak
Tags: Visual Design, Colors

Assignment Brief: In the group of 9 people we were asked to create one abstract video of our learning and compose our own music for the video using non-conventional instruments. All 9 of us need to come into the frame.

Exploration :

We chose to depict the transition of the mode of communication from the cave age to VR world.

Team members :

1.Bhawna Tak

2.Mehar Jangra

3.Hardik

4. Aditya

5.Shipra

6. Nivetha

7.Trisha

8.Siddaratha

9. Rahul

Reflection :

It was tough to syn music and video and coordinating with multiple people. Since one needs to coordinate from previous and after transition person.

I have coordinated with Nevtha and Trisha for having transitioned from bird to letter as a mode of communication. Though the module ended with this video but all of us become sensitive about form, color, visual elements and various design principles. Our surrounding is full of design elements we just need an eye to abstract it. During the color we developed a habit to look for the history, culture and context of various things, even we learned what principles developed in eastern culture and western culture. We were always advised to get challenges with the quote of one my prof Kuntal Da,” Designers should be like a cat if thrown from 13th floor, she may jump, shift, crawl but land on her four feet.
Perception changes with colors
By: Bhawna Tak
Tags: Color Theory, Perception, Colors

How does light influence our perception when we see any object.

Assignment Brief :

we were asked to take any object and change it ‘s color and see does our perception changes. Another task was given to us to take selfie under different lights.

My explorations :
Missing The Colors, Here Comes The Winter
By: Suntonu Bhadra
Tags: Nature, Fall, Poetry, Travel, Colors

Surrounded hue turning to a frustrating vibe

gradually

leaves gone

little shades of light

the pandemic getting into nerves

seems like for ages,

day-times changed,

a night crawls earlier than the mind can take in,

another winter is stepping in,

probably a brutal one-

mixed with vaccines world

meanwhile,

I recall the colors of the last fall

“flowers bloom

trees smiling in branches

delights in weather

a flash of frenzy colors

zestful tune of nature

while clouds float in purity

refreshed gusts around

a little girl with golden hair, giggling on her father’s arm

a gracious vibe touching all people

on the twilight cheer in the glazing hours of fall.”

outside, dark shadows fall upon us

inside, my veins ask for the fall, in full.

‘Missing The Colors, Here Comes The Winter’ words by Suntonu Bhadra
Composition
By: Bhawna Tak
Tags: Emotion Recognition, Composition, Design Principles, Colors

Assignment Brief: Take two 20cmX20cm squares. Using any geometric shapes (circle, triangle, square, rectangle or rhombus), lines and dots (size and color is decided by you) create two compositions that represent any of the following words~ love, fear, hate, friendship, sweet, bitter, sour, vast, future, past, many, shallow, flight, infinite. Make a window of 8cmX8cm, identify the predominating principles of design from your compositions. Take photographs of those 8X8.

My compositions:

Infinity Loop

I have created this composition using 4 colors. I have tried to create a 3D effect using continuous circles.

Hate

I represented hate in the core of the composition as when we hate someone we hate them from our heart based on our decision. Hate brings anger to people. I have depicted that by enclosing hate in anger. Once we have hate and anger with us it creates social distance between us and people.

Reflection :

There are various thoughts when we think of any emotion. There are define colors to depict each emotion. During this module we were asked to break the conventional rule and encouraged us to explore various colors to depict emotions but as they say “for thinking out of the box one needs to understand inside the box mechanism”. When I was thinking infinity I got stuck with the infinity symbol being an engineer in nature, it took some time for me to reflect on what else can depict the infinity loop.
UI Palettes: A Series
By: Daniel Kuether
Tags: Ui Ux Design, UI Design, UI, Colors, Palette

I chose a deep black as the primary color for this palette. I genuinely think, when portraying the inspiration photo’s dramatic feel, that this primary should act as a background color. Now admittedly, that does not work for all mediums, and you should assess the likelihood of a print material needed before selecting the palette. The secondary color is a muted green with beige undertones. This green compliments the black nicely as the black is composed of similar green hues. Finally, I chose this burnt orange shade that earnestly feels like the best of autumn. Try to use the accent color in large blocks for CTA’s or other large impact items.

I imagine this palette used to sell a physical product. Think of a shiny futuristic product, even something as practical as a vacuum or blender. The colors lend themselves nicely to metallic juxtapositions. I wanted to explore a font family that was also reflective of clean, simple lines. I chose Monaco for headlines and subtitles and Hiragino Sans for the body paragraphs. The colors are the main show, and the fonts should supplement their dramatization without distracting from it.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my pallette investigation. Please take these colors even further and let me know how you may use them in your own designs.
Sasha, thank you for participating again!
Tags: Photo Challenge, Photography, Colors

Sasha, thank you for participating again! How fun that you focused on color during a gloomy time in your location. I hope the colors helped you feel lighter and brighter.

If we really pay attention, we can find light when it’s dark, color when it’s gray, and fascination when we’re bored. All we have to do is look.
Finding Color
By: Sasha Meyer
Tags: Photography, Dailyphoto, November, Challenge, Colors

Finding Color

For the 5th time now I’m joining the daily photo challenge created by Dennett.

It’s mid-November and personally, I feel like this tends to be the darkest month of the year. Spring is still far away, Halloween has passed and it’s not yet time to bring out the Christmas decor. The beautifully colored leaves start turning into brown mush on the side of the road and every day it gets just a little bit colder. In early November Germany went into a second lockdown, which doesn’t make things any easier. While I don’t mind the cold, I do miss the light, the sun, and well the color that comes with it.

Which is why this week I tried to use this challenge not just to express myself, but also to brighten my mood. I focused not just on finding the beauty, but also the color in the days that otherwise don’t feel quite as fun and bright.

It wasn’t always easy to find something. Some days I had to go ahead and create the colors myself, others nature did it all by itself and I just happened to run right into it.

Either way, I truly enjoyed joining the challenge again.

It made my week at least a little less dark and a whole lot more fun!
Understanding Color Printing Jargon step by step.
By: Step Step
Tags: Step By Step, Understanding, Colors, Printing, Color Printing

Learn to Understanding Color Printing Jargon step by step easily:Do you know the color difference? For most people, color is a color. But for a professional who makes a living painting, there’s something else too.

Printers are very skilled at various color printing methods. Let’s talk about this color printing process to find out what each one means.

Most color printing projects use spot color or color processing. In any project, the budget plays a large role in decision making, as well as the printing methods and design elements used in the layout. Typically, some spot colors must cost less than four colors or color printing technology. However, if you are using a color photo, a more expensive color process may be the best option to quickly understand color Printing Jargon step by step in a more understandable manner.

color printing jargon step by step

If your post does not contain color photos.

- When your shipment requires colors that cannot be reproduced accurately. This includes CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) inks, which are often used to match corporate colors or logo colors exactly.

- When you print a specific color on something that requires a side to side sequence of colors.

- If you use a much larger space like your poster, the right colors can even result in a consistent marketing pitch.

- Spot color gives you a more vibrant color than CMYK in your color print ad.

- Or if your ad requires a special effect that requires the creation of inks such as metal or fluorescent lamps.

color printing step by step

On the other hand, you definitely need to apply tech colors, i.e. CMYK ink if …

- Your ad contains a color photo.

- Your ad contains graphics that require multi-colored ink to create.

You will then need to make lots of colored inks if you are using spot colors instead of process colors.

- If you need more than two spot colors in your ad, consider using process colors instead. In most cases, you can save on tech color costs instead of using four or more spot colors to create your own hues.

If you have an ad that includes a photo combining spot color and color processing, you can always use both apps. This is especially true for your logo colors. For best results, check with your color printer to make sure you have the best application to create the colors you need for your marketing campaign.
COLOR CONSULTATION
By: Paul Maxwell Godfrey, Artist Muralist
Tags: Colors, Paul Maxwell Godfrey, Artist

Colors are a separate science! All colors have their own unique wavelength, and its important to chose the right colors, for your home or office, as the wrong colors can make one feel uneasy in those surroundings and the right colors make one feel happy and calm.

You should test this for yourself: Go for a walk and just look at colors and see what effect they have on you? Do you feel happy or sad? The main focus is on colors for walls, be it interior or exterior as both are equally important, as anyone passing by your home is affected by those colors too! We can help you to choose the right colors with confidence, to bring about harmony!

Paul Maxwell Godfrey, Artist/Muralist
The Color Spectrum
By: Jesse Jet
Tags: Poetry, Storytelling, Rhymes, Poem, Colors

Red is a burning ember

In the middle of the night

Orange is the morning sun

That drapes the world in light

Yellow is like summer

Butterflies and lemonade

Green is a garden of wonder

But turns sunshine back to shade

Blue is an ocean cave

A place to think things through

In preparation for an evening fire

An ember, bright and new

The darkness falls to indigo

It’s not always clear which way to go

But the hazy glow of a purple dawn

Carries the story on and on

You see, you can’t choose

A single favorite color

Each hue has it’s role

No greater or less than another
Color Blindness
By: Ali Muhannad
Tags: Science, Light, Brain, Blindness, Colors

Photo by Jeremy Thomas on Unsplash

Over time the concepts of colors, and how our brain process the colors have changed a lot, it moved from the belief that objects emit color, to certain objects reflect certain colors, to the modern known fact that objects only reflect their color, for example, a red ball only reflects red wavelength and absorb the rest wavelength of other colors (when illuminated by white light), the brain in the other hand signals the red wavelength and recognize it as red.

So what color blindness is? simply color blinded person cannot distinguish between certain colors, leaving them with a lot of challenges to deal with in their daily life such as recognizing traffic lights, medicine, etc.
Colours of Autumn
By: Adam Ray Cronk
Tags: Haiku, Poetry, Autumn, Colors, Poetry On Medium

Freelancer, mediocre chef, and the guy telling you to go to the gym more often than he’s willing. I enjoy writing haikus, tell me what they mean to you.
Why cant men wear pink?
By: Monika Agrawal
Tags: Stereotypes, Men In Pink, Pink, Girls, Colors

Because when they do, we treated them differently!

In this world, when we talk about gender, we also talk about their tie of color, like pink is perfectly for women, blue is for men, but we can see here men are not treated the same as women who wear blue-black.

So how this color pink is gender based & only for women?

In 1920s, some groups describes this pink color as masculine color, like red for men, but after then in stores people we increasingly choosing to buy pink only for women's & blue for men, until this became normal norm in the 1940s.

1.Pink is for girls!

We can see many products in market-that associate blue for boys and pink for girls. If we walk through a shopping mall or visit line store-we’ll find baby pink dressed dolls and kitchen sets. Toy guns, building blocks in blue, black shades.

If a baby boy wear pink dress-then he’s easily mistaken for a girl and vice versa.

2.Cultural stereotypes!

Razor for Female

Now cultural stereotypes on the basis of color coding also grown up into a mature person.

We always think delicacy & softness suited best for girls.

Mature & Strangeness & more masculine shades is only suited for men.

We can observe many cosmetic brands-who design pink color product for women mostly.

Shaving tools are a great example for this, on online shopping website, we can find women’s specific pink razors packaged with sparkles, flowery patterns. Other hand, black dark blue razors with no flowery patterns, only straight lines.

3. More feminine color!

Feminine colors are described as beautiful, romantic, cute, lovely, fragrance & sweet. Although there are many colors that are considered for these characteristics like-pink, coral, rose, peach with varying degree of shades.

4. Personality color!

Our favorite color or which we always want to wear whisper something about our personality.

Like my favorite color is pink, and this tells other about me, I have a deep need to be accepted & loved unconditionally. I am a soft hearted person.(Really! I’m not bragging here).

And men choose different favorite colors from long list, but mostly not pink.

5. Less manly!

If a men wear pink tie on his office suit then we can observe him, he will look less manly in that attire.

6.Color describe Smartness!

A man wearing pink color shirt/Blazer in an interview will surely look far from smart. Interviewer can judge and marks him less for color of his choice.

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So, Pink is not just a color- this is a gender and sexuality marker in the society. But this means not pink is just always for girls, if you ( a men) wear this with confidence, then this is surely your color.

- Monika Agrawal
The Color of Me
By: Annelise Lords
Tags: Heart, Color, Eyes, House Of Haiku, Humanity

A poem about the color of Humans

House of Haiku Prompt “Colour”

The Color of my Heart Image by Annelise Lords

The colour of me

Is in my hugs, actions, smiles

Not my skin or eyes

Image by Annelise Lords

Thank you Brett Christensen for more brain exercise.

In my country, we believe that our actions, thoughts, decisions tell a lot about us, who we are, and how we think. Many of us can read minds if we listen to actions. Lol, I could be wrong. But I have proven it many times.

Thank you for reading this piece. I hope you enjoyed it. Please enjoy more from superb writers on this platform.

https://mediumauthor.com/@thisisanneliselords

https://mediumauthor.com/podcast

medium.com/illumination/interview-with-annelise-lords-421238e49b9f

https://twitter.com/ThisisAnneliseL

https://medium.com/authors-peeps/authors-peeps-interview-d43e38e53898
Planting Flower Bulbs
Tags: Landscaping, Flowers, Gardening, Flower Bulbs, Flower Gardening

Welcome back. I wrote this post about a month ago but didn’t publish since I have been focusing on bird watching lately. I planted the bulbs in mid October.

This post is a little different for me, although I do at times cover flowers, mainly perennial. We haven’t planted bulbs in many years. Now that I am retired, I’m finding more time to expand my horizons.

We decided to plant some bulbs in a new bed I created last fall underneath a crab apple tree in the side yard. Planting bulbs is pretty straight forward, hopefully the results will be good.

When planting bulbs, first of all, be sure that they are correct for the Zone you live in. Also, be sure to follow directions especially as to the correct planting depth. Since this bed is mulched with shredded pine mulch, that should provide an extra layer of protection over the winter months.

It is a good idea also to label what was planted, as it may be hard to remember come Spring.

I have recently also planted bulbs in the beds in front of our house in-between the shrubs. In these beds I planted, tulips, daffodils, crocuses and irises.

Finally, a video how to regarding planting bulbs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d_oNl5a_J4

Thanks for reading. Until next time.
Whatever Happened to Lolly Lily?
By: Katie Michaelson
Tags: Fairy Wing Lily, Plants, Muddyum, Gardening, Humor

Who is that at my door?

Could it be news of our beloved Lolly Lily?

“What can I do for you, officer?”

This is when I think of everything I’ve done wrong in my life and am certain they have found me out.

“Yes, I stole that bubble gum when I was 5.”

“I did it. I did it. I took a piece of my little brother’s candy bar.”

“I know, I know. I drove the wrong way on a one-way street in 1967!”

There is no way in hell I’m fessing up that I’ve done that on multiple occasions. And I sure ain’t telling anyone I did on the interstate last summer. I may suffer from Catholic guilt — and crap, now I got white guilt, but I ain’t stupid!

Hoping I’d not said any of that out loud, I said, “Officer Pete, did your son like the basil plant I gave him?”

“Yes, Friendly Old Plant Lady. Do you know this plant?”

Lolly Lily at the scene of the accident.

“Lolly Lily! Is she okay?”

“I’m sorry, Friendly Old Plant Lady, but we didn’t get to her in time.”

“You mean…?”

“Yes, Friendly Old Plant Lady. She’s a gone’er. Is there anything we can do?”

“Yes, please tell me how to spell gonner.”
4 Gardening Tips for Beginners
By: Sorath Farman
Tags: Gardening, Gardening Tips

Decide the crops you want to grow

The first step is to list down the crops you want to see in your garden. Choose the one which is viable in your area. As some plants prefer spring, you can’t plant them in summers. For instance, peas are prone to cool temperature, whereas watermelon grows in high temperature. Connect with other gardeners to know about the crops which grow well. If you want a small garden, don’t grow crops like pumpkin.

Image source: Unsplash

Select the location for your Garden

Many fruits require four to five hours of sunlight. On the other hand, herbs grow in half shade. In either case, you should see whether the plants are accessible for watering or plucking. For further information, check the plant package. Make sure your garden is visible- you can watch out for pets.

Image source: Unsplash

Do soil test

Ever wonder what your plant needs to grow healthy? Good soil. All your efforts will go in vain if the soil in your yard is poor. But wait, you can avoid such mishap by assessing it. To do that, take some soil in your hand and feel the consistency. If it’s non-sticky, it has sand. Sticky-soil contains clay. Now, add compost in it. If the soil has turned into smooth, it is ready for plants.

Image source: Unsplash

Build a raised bed garden

If you want an attractive garden without putting fewer efforts, raised bed garden is for you; though it requires an upfront investment. A raised bed controls pests from damaging flora. Also, you can grow different plants side-by-side to attract insects and enhance yield. Make sure all plants are getting enough space to grow.