All language subtitles for Design Basics- Color Theory - Ben Nielsen_7

Now that we know how the color wheel
works and how color harmonies work

and how different colored modes work.

We can now go ahead and
start making color palettes.

So a color palette is going to be
a confined number of colors that

you're going to use in your design.

And it will often be based
on one of the color harms.

Sometimes a color palette will
be given you by a client or the

business that you've worked for.

For example, if you work for a corporate
brand, they probably have a branding guide

that tells you exactly what colors to use.

And those will normally
include hexadecimal codes.

Like we talked about in the
last video that you can just

put into your design program.

If you want to create your
own color palette, it's good

to use some rules to do it.

And it's nice to have a tool to help you
get those rules and then massage the color

palette to be where you want it to be.

So.

Website is called color.adobe.com.

And it's a free resource provided
by Adobe so that you can go

ahead and create color palettes.

They actually bought a website
that did this called cooler and

then have incorporated it into
their creative cloud software.

But this happens to be free.

If you just go to the web.

So you can see that you have a color
wheel in the middle here, and then

the colored swatches along the bottom.

And that's often how we refer to colors
as swatches, going back to, you know, like

paint swatches that you might find in the
hardware store or something like that.

And you can change these by actually
moving the circles on the color wheel.

You don't need to use color.adobe.com.

There are other sites that do
something similar to this is

just one that I find really cool.

He can see if I grabbed this and move it.

It will change the colors as we go along.

And it's yeah.

You know, harmony to do this.

And if we look over on the left-hand side,
we can see where these harmony rules are.

And this is analogous, which
you probably guessed already.

So it's just taking them
right next to each other.

And you can see that
it's doing a five colors.

Color palette on this website.

They always come in five colors.

So that's just the way this website
works, but you can do different things.

Now, if we switch this to monochromatic,
you're going to see that suddenly

that line just becomes straight.

Right.

And what it's doing is it's just
selecting those tints tones and shades

that go along with the same color.

And so say we wanted some
yellow monochromatic.

We could just drag over here.

To find something that we like in
the yellow range, and it's just

going to kind of solve that for us.

Now, then if we come here to
triad, it immediately jumps out

to give us three different colors.

And because it's working with five,
it gives us two shades as well.

But the three colors in the middle
are really the part of the tread.

So you can see this looks very similar
to things that we've seen before.

Okay.

Then there is complimentary colors.

So of course we get all the complimentary
colors that we've seen previous.

And then there's a bunch of other ones
like split complimentary things that

get a little bit more complicated.

You remember?

I said, there are lots of ways to do
this, but those are the ones that we've

already talked about before are analogous,
monochromatic, triad, and complimentary.

And when you do this, you can see that
it is showing you the RGB values down

here, and it's giving you the hex codes.

So this is the easiest way.

To go about doing this.

You can just go ahead and copy
your hex codes and take them into

whatever program you're using.

Most programs will take hex
codes, but if they don't, you

also have the RGB values here.

And if you go over here, you can
actually switch to CNYK or HSB.

So you can always take those values into
whatever program you're using to create.

Another thing that you might do is take a
screenshot of these swatches and then just

go ahead and bring that screenshot in.

And if your program has an
eyedropper tool, you can go

ahead and grab that as well.

And it's really important that you work.

Pallet like this and that you
try to limit yourself to just

a few colors in your design.

I know we talked about this before, but
it's really important to understand,

and it can be really difficult to do
this when you're first starting out

as a designer, because it can feel
very limiting, but having constraints

helps to improve your creativity and
using a limited color palette helps

people to better understand what you're
trying to convey in your designs.

So really try to stick
to just a few colors.

So even if you're getting a color
palette, Say five colors like this,

you can in a triadic color scheme, just
stick to, you know, maybe the three

main colors or something like that.

Also remember straight.

He was like, this can
be really overwhelming.

So you can always drag this down
to get into a more pastel range.

Just depends on what you're going for.

Always think about what the color
is going to convey now, doing this

and creating your own is great.

But sometimes even easier is
to click on this explore tab up

here and find color palettes that
people have already made for you.

So if I'm doing some vintage work, I can
just search vintage and I'll find color.

That people have already made
that convey that vintage feeling.

You can see that, oh, some of these are
drawn out of pictures, like, oh, okay.

This one's awesome.

I like this one.

And it's drawn from this image.

Right.

An image that already
had a good color pot.

They're just drawing that out.

And then here you get the hex codes.

If you want to get other codes, you
come down here to your color modes

and you can get those right there.

So it makes it super easy
to get different colors.

So spend some time on this website
or on Pinterest, or there's a bunch

of different color swatch website.

Where you can get different theme
ideas or make your own theme.

And then you just bring
that in and work with it.

I just can't stress how important it
is to start working from a color theme.

And one of your assignments for this
class is to make two color themes.

And when I say, make two color themes,
you don't have to make them yourself.

You just need to find two that you.

And you're going to post a
picture of those swatches.

They can be here from this website.

You can just click on it and
take a screenshot and do that.

Or you can take a screenshot of your
color palette in whatever program

you're working in, where you can
just make squares in the program and

fill them each with the right color.

It doesn't matter how you get there.

You just need to.

Two different color palettes.

Those color palettes should
range between three and five

or six colors at the maximum.

So make sure that you
go ahead and do that.

And then you will be using these
color palettes to change the

colors of a design that you've
made for the last part of the year.