<p>Hardcover – 144 pages – Full Color</p>
<p><br />The Designer’s Guide to Color Combinations was the first book to show color combinations in the context of usage. That is, not just random groupings of swatches—as they did in the Chronicle Books series of color combinations books—but swatches based on great posters, fabrics, tiles, rugs, illustration, covers and anything else I could find that was beautiful. Thus these colors are, in a sense, proven.<p> <p> <br />In addition, this book was the first color swatch book to give the <span class="caps">CMYK</span> formulas for the colors so you could recreate them on your own desktop. And even more importantly, my book shows the colors in the context of the order of importance: which colors are accents, which backgrounds, which can be used for borders, or for middle ground, and so forth, so the user benefits both from the colors are that were chosen as well as how they were created and used by past and present color experts.<p> <p><br />The colors in this book start with Victorian designs and work their way up through Art Deco, Fifties, and psychedelic Sixties to the present.<p> <p>
<p>Check out the <span class="caps">CD ROM</span> offered separately on my site that is based on this book and the other in this series, The Designer’s Guide to Global Color Combinations, which is out of print. Even if you don’t own the books themselves, with this CD you just open up some random files and see which swatch groupings appeal to your eye, then paste them into Illustrator or Photoshop to sample them with the eyedropper tool for your own use.</p>2008-06-25T15:40:40-07:00designers-guide-to-color-combinations-500-historic-and-modern-color-formulas-in-cmyk2362452Book2008-06-25T15:40:40-07:00Designer's Guide to Color Combinations - 500 Historic and Modern Color Formulas in CMYK2008-10-21T18:49:09-07:00Leslie Cabarga
Hardcover - 144 pages - Full Color
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The Designer’s Guide to Color Combinations was the first book to show color combinations in the context of usage. That is, not just random groupings of swatches—as they did in the Chronicle Books series of color combinations books—but swatches based on great posters, fabrics, tiles, rugs, illustration, covers and anything else I could find that was beautiful. Thus these colors are, in a sense, proven.<p> <p>
In addition, this book was the first color swatch book to give the CMYK formulas for the colors so you could recreate them on your own desktop. And even more importantly, my book shows the colors in the context of the order of importance: which colors are accents, which backgrounds, which can be used for borders, or for middle ground, and so forth, so the user benefits both from the colors are that were chosen as well as how they were created and used by past and present color experts.<p> <p>
The colors in this book start with Victorian designs and work their way up through Art Deco, Fifties, and psychedelic Sixties to the present.<p> <p>
Check out the CD ROM offered separately on my site that is based on this book and the other in this series, The Designer’s Guide to Global Color Combinations, which is out of print. Even if you don’t own the books themselves, with this CD you just open up some random files and see which swatch groupings appeal to your eye, then paste them into Illustrator or Photoshop to sample them with the eyedropper tool for your own use.
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