Colour Combinations

"There are no ugly colours; there are only ugly colours in combination."

                  Paula Scher 

Today we looked at some colour combinations, some complementary pairs are purple and yellow, red and green and Orange and blue. However we were given the task to choose our least favourite colour, I choose brown because when I think of brown I think dull, boring, dirty and other more negative connotations. We were then told we needed to use this colour and two other colours for the theme of a children's book.

My Idea for a children's book was to make it about a dog because children enjoy stories about animals and a brown colour could be the colour of the dogs fur. I also decided to pick the colours black and red.

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I choose this shade of brown because it was not too dark and it is more of a chocolatey, warm brown. That as a dog's fur could be more cuddly and inviting like a teddy bear and children my find this friendly.

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I decided on red and it is both stereotypical to boys and girls and is a primary colour so it is one of the first colours children learn. I choose this shade because it is bright and colourful and will contrast against my other colour choices. I could also use this is a children's book for multiple objects related to a dog.

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Finally I choose black because It is the best colour against the white pages for a child to be able to read. It could also be used as an outline for the illustrations.

An Example of what these colours could look like on a children's book cover.