Colour Theory

Today we did an introduction into colour theory and systematic colour. I learnt that RGB (Red, Blue and Green) is additive colour and is best for screen based. Whereas CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) is used for halftone printing and is subtractive colour. We also looked at hue, chroma, shades, tints and tones.

We got given a task to get into groups and pick four book genres then pick two colours for each, one colour that is stereotypical to the genre and a colour that we like for the cover and can justify.
I was in a group with Nicky and Hannah.

FairyTale
When you think of fairytales you automatically think that they are aimed at little girls and a colour that is known for little girls is a bright pink. The colour also relates to princesses and romance. We picked colour 31-1-1U for the stereotypical book cover colour as it is a shade of pink that came to our minds.

We then picked a colour that we thought would be more suited to fairytales which is 26-3-1U dark red. We choose this because fairytales usually include castles, dragons and royalty and we think that a dark red is a royal colour that could represent a knights uniform, dragon or a castles decor and even love.

Western

When thinking about a stereotypical colour for a western book cover we thought about what is stereotypical to the stories themselves which is cowboys, leather and horses which have a brown theme. We choose the shade 8-2-1U as we think this best resembled what we were thinking.

However we liked the colour 17-1-6U which is more of a warm orange colour. We liked this as it reminded us of a cowboy riding his horse off into the sunset.

Science Fiction

 Our stereotypical colour choice for a science fiction book cover was 66-1-7U which is a deep blue. We choose this because we thought this represented space, science and a deep understanding.

However we decided that we like a bright green as it can link to the excitement of a new finding or a chemical or aliens. We liked the 117-1-4U shade of green because it wasn't to  pale or dark and was what we were first thinking of for science fiction.

Mystery

When we thought of a mystery we thought of dark and creepy colours with a mysterious feel. We decided on a deep purple 59-1-7U because it looks like shadows and slightly scary.

Then for our choice we choose a dark crimson red 23-5-3U because mysteries usually include death and night scenes. Red is associated with blood and the darkness of it can link to night time and shadows and well and other creepy things.