Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY COLORS
All colors in this “color chart” are made from the primary colors, yellow, red and blue.
SECONDARY AND TERTIARY COLORS
Overlapping plates on this sheet are printed in full color. Tints are avoided in order to show secondary and tertiary colors in full strength.
To lighten secondary or tertiary colors add more of the lightest color of the combination. For example, if a lighter shade of primary green is more desirable, use more yellow; to deepen, add blue; to use as a tint, add white.
The above plates illustrate the primary and secondary colors broken up with light.
Color Mixing Guide
FOR
ARTISTS, PAINTERS, DECORATORS, PRINTING PRESSMEN, SHOW CARD WRITERS, SIGN PAINTERS, COLOR MIXERS
GIVES COLOR MIXTURES BY PARTS
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WHAT IS COLOR?
Color is an effect caused by the reflection of certainrays of light. In order to understand thisstatement, it is necessary that we know whatlight is. Science teaches us that light is a formof intense vibration which reaches the earth directfrom the sun. These vibrations affect certainnerves of the retina of the eye, causing the sensationknown as color.
In the study of color, or in practice, it is necessarythat we have a standard. The standard colorsare those seen in the spectrum or in the rainbow.These colors are selected as standard colorsbecause they are the true colors as reflected bypure light and they