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Color Index XL provides aspiring designers, artists, and creative individuals working with color with an indispensable, one-stop method for reviewing and selecting current, up-to-date color palettes for their creative projects. Designer and lecturer Jim Krause's classic resource is back with a new approach that presents each group of palettes in an oversized form for easy visual review, and bleeding to the edge of the page (edge indexing) for quick access. By providing variations for each palette, Krause ensures that creatives can find the best color selection for each project's needs. This book serves as the perfect resource for teachers, students, and professionals of all kinds in the art and design space who want to stay up-to-date on the ever-evolving trends in color.
Review
—Von Glitschka, Creative Director of GlitschkaStudios.com
About the Author
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Why a new edition of Color Index? And why now? For one thing—whether you’re talking about cars, computers, vacuum cleaners, or books—there’s always room for improvement with newer models. Also, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, tastes and fads constantly evolve when it comes to color. The palettes in this volume reflect changes in trends in the last decade or so.
Here, I’d like to showcase four key features in Color Index XL. I think these upgrades are especially noteworthy.
First of all, Color Index XL is a lot bigger than its pocket-size predecessors (and this is where the “XL” in the title comes from). The main advantage of this extra-large format is that it’ll give you a much better look at the book’s palettes. As a result, you’ll have an easier time imagining how a palette’s colors will look when added to a project of your own.
The second feature applies to the print edition of this book. As you can see, its colors go right to the edges of the book’s pages (in printer terminology, this is known as allowing colors to “bleed”). The nice thing about having this book’s palettes bleed is that you can now lay a page’s colors directly against another work of design or art for easy and direct comparison. Not only that, but the bleeding palettes in Color Index XL also make it possible to conveniently fan along the edges of its pages when you’re either brainstorming for palette ideas or looking for a specific range of colors. I think you’ll really like this feature. I know I do, and I also really like the way these multicolored pages look when the book lies closed. It’s a neat visual effect.
The third feature is that each of the palettes in Color Index XL contains five colors (the earlier incarnations of Color Index featured palettes with as few as two colors). Why the expanded palettes? Well, why not? After all, advances in printing and digital technology have largely done away with cost barriers that once severely limited the number of colors that designers and artists could use on a project.
Now, given that this book’s palettes each contain five colors, you might wonder if you have to incorporate all five hues when selecting a particular palette. The answer is no. Not at all. Choose anywhere from just one to all five colors, depending on the needs of your project and the look you’re aiming for.
And, finally, the fourth key feature of Color Index XL is that each of its palettes is shown in four versions: brighter, darker, lighter, and more muted. This is an especially practical upgrade, since it allows you to find a palette with just the right visual personality and properties. For example, you might choose brighter palettes for projects that call for feelings of extroversion and energy. Meanwhile, darker palettes could be the answer when you’re preparing backdrops for lighter headlines, text, or graphics. You might apply lighter palettes to backdrops that are meant to sit beneath darker visual elements, or use muted palettes to generate feelings of sophistication or restraint.
All in all, these features should make Color Index XL an even more timely, practical, and idea-expanding creative tool than any of my previous Color Index books.
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AED16100
Quantity:
Order today to get by 7-14 business days
Delivery fee of AED 20. Free for orders above AED 200.
Imported From: United States
At BOLO, we work hard to ensure the products you receive are new, genuine, and sourced from reputable suppliers.
Every product in the BOLO catalogue is sourced through our Verified Global Supply Network of verified sellers, authorized distributors or directly from the manufacturer.
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All orders are processed manually, and we make every effort to process them promptly once confirmed. Products cancelled due to the above reasons will be permanently removed from listings across the website.
Description:
Color Index XL provides aspiring designers, artists, and creative individuals working with color with an indispensable, one-stop method for reviewing and selecting current, up-to-date color palettes for their creative projects. Designer and lecturer Jim Krause's classic resource is back with a new approach that presents each group of palettes in an oversized form for easy visual review, and bleeding to the edge of the page (edge indexing) for quick access. By providing variations for each palette, Krause ensures that creatives can find the best color selection for each project's needs. This book serves as the perfect resource for teachers, students, and professionals of all kinds in the art and design space who want to stay up-to-date on the ever-evolving trends in color.
Review
—Von Glitschka, Creative Director of GlitschkaStudios.com
About the Author
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Why a new edition of Color Index? And why now? For one thing—whether you’re talking about cars, computers, vacuum cleaners, or books—there’s always room for improvement with newer models. Also, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, tastes and fads constantly evolve when it comes to color. The palettes in this volume reflect changes in trends in the last decade or so.
Here, I’d like to showcase four key features in Color Index XL. I think these upgrades are especially noteworthy.
First of all, Color Index XL is a lot bigger than its pocket-size predecessors (and this is where the “XL” in the title comes from). The main advantage of this extra-large format is that it’ll give you a much better look at the book’s palettes. As a result, you’ll have an easier time imagining how a palette’s colors will look when added to a project of your own.
The second feature applies to the print edition of this book. As you can see, its colors go right to the edges of the book’s pages (in printer terminology, this is known as allowing colors to “bleed”). The nice thing about having this book’s palettes bleed is that you can now lay a page’s colors directly against another work of design or art for easy and direct comparison. Not only that, but the bleeding palettes in Color Index XL also make it possible to conveniently fan along the edges of its pages when you’re either brainstorming for palette ideas or looking for a specific range of colors. I think you’ll really like this feature. I know I do, and I also really like the way these multicolored pages look when the book lies closed. It’s a neat visual effect.
The third feature is that each of the palettes in Color Index XL contains five colors (the earlier incarnations of Color Index featured palettes with as few as two colors). Why the expanded palettes? Well, why not? After all, advances in printing and digital technology have largely done away with cost barriers that once severely limited the number of colors that designers and artists could use on a project.
Now, given that this book’s palettes each contain five colors, you might wonder if you have to incorporate all five hues when selecting a particular palette. The answer is no. Not at all. Choose anywhere from just one to all five colors, depending on the needs of your project and the look you’re aiming for.
And, finally, the fourth key feature of Color Index XL is that each of its palettes is shown in four versions: brighter, darker, lighter, and more muted. This is an especially practical upgrade, since it allows you to find a palette with just the right visual personality and properties. For example, you might choose brighter palettes for projects that call for feelings of extroversion and energy. Meanwhile, darker palettes could be the answer when you’re preparing backdrops for lighter headlines, text, or graphics. You might apply lighter palettes to backdrops that are meant to sit beneath darker visual elements, or use muted palettes to generate feelings of sophistication or restraint.
All in all, these features should make Color Index XL an even more timely, practical, and idea-expanding creative tool than any of my previous Color Index books.
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