Clouded color
A cloudy color , including broken , veiled , sometimes muted, tinted color, is characterized by low brightness and low saturation. Tertiary colors are usually also cloudy colors.
Color theory
When he systematized (body) colors in the real variety of colors, Wilhelm Ostwald had come from the spectral colors to the full colors, i.e. the most saturated ones. These can then be whitened with white and veiled with the addition of black . These veiled colors are the clouded colors. By introducing the term brightness into the color spaces, this concealment is removed from the original mixing of colorants with black. The clouded colors are in all color spaces in the vicinity of the black-gray-white zone. The HSV color space is an example of this .
Colorful cloudy
If all three primary colors meet in the subtractive color mixture , the tertiary colors are obtained . These are generally less colorful. As expected, the range of these colors is more extensive due to the possibility of combining three colors. This entirety can be represented in CMY space. Since the minimum mixed amount with black can be summarized as color depth , the formation of the CMYK color space is possible.
Cloudy
All cloudy colors can also be achieved with two primary colors and one black. This is correct because - at least in theory - black is composed of a basic but equal set of all three primary colors. Since real black colorants do not achieve this “theoretical blackness”, the cloudy black shapes tend to achieve cold to neutral mixed tones. The warm color range , on the other hand, can be mixed from the three basic colors.
Color mixing
A base color mixed with black leads to the cloudy black colors, ultimately to the pure black colorant. Correspondingly, the cloudy colors are obtained when the basic color is mixed with complementary colors; here the final mixing result is of course the complementary color.
See also
literature
- Hans Gekeler : DuMont's handbook of colors DuMont, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7701-2111-2 , p. 130 ff.
- Harald Küppers : Theory of harmony in colors - Theoretical principles of color design. DuMont, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7701-2192-9 .
