Color Project
For this research project, explore why different color combinations evoke different moods or suggest different personalities, identify an image or set of images that creates a particular mood or personality, and use these images to specify a color palette.
Record your research results on an appropriate titled page in your web portfolio in the reports section.
Color makes a Difference
Research the effects of color combinations on mood starting with a web search on color and mood. Draw from several different sources to explain how different color combinations affect mood. Be sure to include some discussion of:
- the difference between "warm" and "cool" colors
- how a color's effect can change depending on the other colors in the color palette
- some examples of the cultural differences related to color and mood (why is white a poor color choice for a wedding dress in India?)
Find images that express a mood or personality
- Locate at least three images or sets of images that suggest a certain mood or personality (peace, tranquility, exciting, speed, harmony, unity, trust, confidence, conservatism, security, cleanliness, order, loyalty, earth, technology, depression). You might choose to explore a personality connected to your Personal Website Project.
- Choose at least one image or set of images from a non-electronic source (feel free to get all three of your images from these sources - a magazine cover, photographic print, afternoon sunset, cityscape, field of wildflowers, cereal box, comic strip, etc.) Scan or photograph the image to record it for this research project.
- Include each image or set of images in your Color Project report with a list of words that describes the mood or personality that the image suggests to you.
Create a color palette with personality
- For each image or set of images in your Color Project report, use a color sampler like color palette generator or Adobe Color to identify the key colors in the image's color palette.
- Create and name a color palette associated with each image or set of images.
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