Color for Designers

 What are pixels?

Is the basic unit of programmable color on a computer. Pixels are the smallest unit in a digital display.

How is color viewed in computer monitors?

A monitor or any screen have three colors of light which are red, green, and blue and the different colors are different combinations and intensities. 

What is the additive color space?

The additive color model describes how light produces color.

Describe which additive color sliders values in InDesign you would use to make white and black.

Right-click the picture that you want to change, and then click Format Picture on the shortcut menu. Click the Picture tab. Under Image control, in the Color list, click Grayscale or Black and White.

What is the subtractive color space?

The subtractive colors are cyan, yellow, magenta and black. Subtractive color begins with white and ends with black.

What is color calibration?

color calibration is to measure and adjust the color response of a device to a known state.

How does the PMS (Pantone Matching System) color system ensure color fidelity?

Each PMS color has a unique number system to ensure reliability for the same color. The designer can reproduce the same color with reference to Pantone number system.

What is analog color?

Analog colors are the colors grouping has similarities. Some examples of analog colors are Yellow, yellow-green, green.

What is digital color?

The digital colors are seen on screens can vary from the print color you see on paper, Digital, Monitors mix red, green and blue colored light to display colors.