Friday, September 25, 2009

Legibility


It simply means how clearly something can be read and contrast is the key to it. Here is my example and I would welcome any rankings from 1 to 5, where 1 is the most and 5 is the least legible.

Simultaneous Contrast


If the eye becomes over-stimulated by a single colour, the eye will attempt to balance it and will pick up a opposite of that color for any neutral area nearby that hue. I've used two different hues but the same gray for the background surrounding the butterfly. According to theory, I should see the opposite colors of these hues in the gray areas. What do you see?

Color Context


I think this was the most trickiest part for me in this assignment. I have had hard times to choose my colours in my pattern to apply color context to it. Colour context simply means a colour will look different when placed aganist various colours. Although they are the same, they may appear different, like more or less bright when they placed near other colors.


Here is the tail wings and the frame of the big wings in the first and second have the same hue, saturation and brightness values. I think small, tail wings worked well but still not sure about the big wings. It's not the best but I think I have fairly achieved my goal. Any comments are welcome! :)