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Can sound and motion illustrate the personality of color? The Animation class at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design set out to discover the answer.
AIGA (2005). Design>Graphic Design>Visual Rhetoric>Color
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This section explains Linear Calibration. Linear is the same as gamma 1.0 or gamma-space 1.0.
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Although we all know that the colors viewed on your computer's monitor are not accurate for print reproduction, your screen color is probably good enough to yield reasonably accurate colorblindness test results. We invite you now to test yourself for colorblindness on-line.
Copresco (2005). Resources>Accessibility>Visual>Color
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Tech Comm Jobs and Freelance Opportunities along the Colorado Front Range
This section of the RMC web site contains information for both jobseekers and freelancers, including listings of recent job postings in the area, national job postings, freelance resources, and an FAQ for freelancers.
STC Rocky Mountain Chapter. Careers>Job Listings>Regional>Colorado
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Twenty of The Best Uses of Color in Current Web Design
Many sites “play it safe” when choosing colors. Brilliant colors have to be carefully controlled to avoid looking amateur. I’ve selected these 20 sites for excellent use of color along with their overall web design. Quality of CSS, features, ease of use all come into play as well.
Haig, Anders. ReEncoded (2008). Articles>Web Design>Graphic Design>Color
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People often use colors in their documents in the wrong ways. Many students think that bright colors should be used in a document when they want to attract someone’s eye to a place on the page. Colors alone, however, should be used in synch with white space, font size, type and placement of whatever it is you want someone to be attracted to. Furthermore, just because something is filled with a bright color does not mean that it is eye-catching or attractive. True, bright colors will quickly draw the eye there, but use colors in a way that will make the eye stay there, not glance away in disgust.
Lanier, Clinton R. sense and usability (2008). Articles>Document Design>Visual Rhetoric>Color
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Color expert Mike Davis of Colorprep knows what to do when color goes wrong... and many times it's the photographer or designer's fault!
Davis, Mike. Design, Typography and Graphics (2004). Design>Document Design>Prepress>Color
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Writing for Other Cultures: Cultural Associations of Color and Graphics 
When writing for cultures that are not your own, you must consider the powerful cultural associations that color and graphics have. Understanding and leveraging these associations leads to documentation that is strong and usable, while not understanding them leads to cultural miscommunications and misunderstandings that can render your information useless.
Coe, Marlana A. STC Proceedings (1996). Design>Graphic Design>Cultural Theory>Color
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Color, Contrast and Design in News Design
An online guide that explains color theory and shows how to use it in design through examples and exercises.
Adam, Pegie Stark. Poynter Online (2007). Presentations>Communication>Graphic Design>Color
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Scholars have learned that all the colors in the universe originate from a mere fifteen fundamental physical causes. These causes appear over and over, lending color to the world around us.
Web Exhibits (2005). Design>Graphic Design>Theory>Color
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Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color? 
At the core of good science and engineering is the careful and respectful treatment of data. We calibrate our instruments, scrutinize the algorithms we use to process the data, and study the behavior of the models we use to interpret the data or simulate the phenomena we may be observing. Surprisingly, this careful treatment of data often breaks down when we visualize our data.
Rogowitz, Bernice E. and Lloyd A. Treinish. IBM (2004). Articles>Graphic Design>Scientific Communication>Color
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Perceiving Hierarchy Through Intrinsic Color Structure 
Color is an intrinsic visual attribute of form that functions as language and message. The purpose of this study was to investigate objectively structured color combinations as a means to communicate visual order for the purpose of reinforcing information hierarchy. Controlling the visual relationships of hue, value and chroma contrast can significantly assist a person's cognitive ability to assign importance and dominance to a controlled color structure. This research study provided significant findings supporting the hypothesis that intrinsic color structures can be formulated objectively; represent a visual hierarchy; and be perceived in an understandable order. Chi-square analysis for 99 participants was calculated for task effectiveness. To analyze task efficiency, three distinct ANOVA calculations were made for time variations. The documented findings of this study presented explicit evidence that addresses specific mechanisms for objective color ordering. The natural inferences of the study support the proposition that there is a natural relationship between objective color ordering principles and human perception.
Puhalla, Dennis M. Visual Communication (2008). Design>Information Design>Visual Rhetoric>Color
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In this article, I’ll cover colour basics and three simple colour schemes so that you can feel confident about choosing colours for your site. I’ll follow up this article with another piece on how to simplify these colour choices. After all, it’s more fun to enjoy the compliments on your Web site design than it is to sweat over the colour choices.
Goin, Linda. Opera (2008). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Color
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Colour Schemes and Design Mockups
After a web designer presents a site’s architecture, or wireframe, to a client for approval, the next step is to determine the look and feel of the site through colour and graphics. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how I keep this process as simple as possible, both for myself and for the client.
Goin, Linda. Opera (2008). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Color
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When your photo can't be changed, surround it with cool color.
Before and After (2008). Design>Graphic Design>Image Editing>Color
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COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color - whether for ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification - a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.
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There are always colorblind people among the audience and readers. There should be more than ten colorblinds in a room with 250 people (50% male and 50% female). There is a good chance that the paper you submit may go to colorblind reviewers. Supposing that your paper will be reviewed by three white males (which is not unlikely considering the current population in science), the probability that at least one of them is colorblind is whopping 22%!
Okabe, Masataka and Kei Ito. University of Tokyo (2002). Articles>Accessibility>Graphic Design>Color
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Correcting Color in Sony Vegas
We’ll begin this series by discussing one of the most important features in any pro nonlinear editor: color correction. The first thing you need to do before beginning any type of color correction work is to determine what "correct" color looks like. Rarely does your computer screen display colors correctly.
McKnight, David. Event DV (2008). Articles>Multimedia>Video>Color
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How Color Defines Purpose in User Assistance Content
Of all the visual cues in your help interface, color is one of the strongest. Users will recognize and react to the color of each element in your help window before reading a single word of text. Color allows users to determine the purpose of each element on the computer screen. When designing the visual aspect of your help content (via CSS and so on), as well as the help interface itself, be sure to use the same color for objects that share a purpose.
Haiss, Craig. HelpScribe (2009). Articles>Documentation>Technical Writing>Color
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The Newest Tool for Technical Communicators: Redux
Discusses color properties and color systems. Re-examines and supports Jan V. White's advice to technical communicators to use color to increase document usability. Discusses what technical communicators should know about color to work effectively with professional printers.
Mackiewicz, Jo M. Technical Communication Online (2009). Articles>Document Design>Prepress>Color
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Fifty Monochromatic Website Designs
Color choice is a key element to the success of any design. It invokes an atmosphere and sets the mood. One method for using color is to use only shades of a color, which is known as a monochromatic color scheme.
Shelton, Michael. Webdesigner Depot (2009). Articles>Web Design>Graphic Design>Color
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Trouble-Free Color Palettes: Transform
As the internet and television bring us instant information and access to millions of resources worldwide—some more trustworthy than others—separating fact from fiction requires a bit of skill ... and luck. Illustrator Lonnie Busch recognizes this conundrum, as depicted in his illustration below. Using a palette that combines warm, rich shades along with cooler highlights, Busch is able draw the viewer into the action.
Dynamic Graphics (2009). Design>Graphic Design>Visual Rhetoric>Color
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Using color and color alone as a visual cue is appealing because it’s usually an aesthetically pleasing and a minimalist design technique. Calls to action and visual cues are critical to interface designers because users, especially on the web, have limited patience and are looking to process information and make decisions quickly. Since the brain recognizes and forms an emotional bond with colors almost immediately, colors are a natural choice for visual cues. Unfortunately, it’s easy to alienate or confuse some of your users when some of those aesthetically pleasing colors look very similar. To point out a few interfaces that use hard to differentiate colors as visual cues, here are a few examples that have given me some trouble.
Campbell, Chris. Particletree (2008). Articles>Graphic Design>Accessibility>Color
