Color 1

Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Since color is an important element in graphic design. I'll introduce some good examples of color use around us to you this week and next few week. Hope you can enjoy it. 

Color is everywhere in our daily life. As you open your eyes, you’ll absolutely see at least one color at anywhere. I'm not going to talk about how light works in our eyes or where the color comes from. I'll introduce how color works to affect our emotion, vision, perception even our decision to you.

- Classify with color -

Color coding, which is to use color systematically to choose classification, can let us quickly scan through the information connected to a specific color. With the Taipei metro map demonstrating by different colors representing different routes of  metro, it's easy for anyone to find the way from one station to another if you can read Chinese and English. Next, let's take a look at a monochrome(黑白) version of the map.

I had played some tricks on the metro map and I think it's hard for you to recognize and connect all the route you've known at the first glance. You can try to find all the relationship between routes without looking at the route number, then you'll also find the power of the color. Let's take a look at a little different example.

Besides using color to represent the routes of metro at the previous example, we can also use color to represent other things. The color in the above gif  means the quantity of  rainfall, and with the change of color, it's easy to know where the rain might fall heavily and even the movement of cloud and hurricane.

That's all for today. Next week, we'll see how each color generally means to human, and how it affects our daily life since more and more colors are printed out by human rather than produced by nature.