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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Color palettes: Limited vs Semi-Limited


There is a debate, sometimes a heated one in fact, about what a beginner's (or professional's for that matter) first color palette should be: a limited palette, a semi-limited, or however many colors you can afford :). I personally fall into the semi-limited philosophy, but first let’s define quickly what these different terms mean.

A true limited color palette is made of only five colors, sometimes six if you are lucky: blue, red, yellow, brown, and white being the main five with a black being the sixth. You will not always find black listed as part of a limited palette, because you can mix your own black using the primaries.

Pros of a limited palette: It allows for easy color harmony throughout the work and ....

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1 comment:

  1. I have always thought of color as additive until I read your differentiation between additive and subtractive! Good to know!

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