Design Practice - Colour: Paper Task

Pantone codes for the paper:

Green Paper - Solid Matte - 376m

Orange Paper - Solid Matte - 166m

Yellow Paper - Solid Matte - 127m

Blue Paper - Solid Matte - 2915m

Red Paper - Solid Matte - 200m

For this task we had to pick 4 objects (each a different colour) and place them on to coloured paper. The point behind this was to see how the different coloured paper affected the colour of the object. Sometimes it made the object darker or lighter or even more saturated.

ORANGE

The green is a complimentary colour. The green has a slight tint of orange in it when they are placed together. The green makes the orange uncomfortable to look at.

The blue cools down the orange and makes the tone darker. The contrast between the two make the orange stand out prominently from the background.

The orange is so bright on the orange it almost blends in. It makes the temperature a lot warmer.

The red makes the orange hue darker

The yellow makes the orange look more saturated and a brighter, stronger colour.

 YELLOW

The yellow on red turns even more yellow. The contrast is high and the yellow stands out as a fully saturated block colour. 

The green really dulls the yellow down and the saturation of the yellow is lowered.

The yellow on the yellow makes the back look darker, this in turn, pushes the backing to the back and makes the object stand out. 

The blue makes the yellow seem prominent and own the page but it does not make the colour look as saturated as the red backing.

RED

The red balloon on the red paper blends in. The tone is the same for the paper and the balloon.

The red almost becomes neon on the blue background. It gives it a warmer temperature and almost painful to look at, you cannot really see the edges.

The red on the yellow makes the red a really dark tone. The hue has been lowered and the red stands out with clear edges. 

Red on orange blends in but not as well as on the red paper. It turns the balloon more orange than red. 

GREEN

The orange is a complimentary colour for the green. It makes the green darker and also makes the orange look like it has a hint of green in it. 

The green backing makes the coaster lighter, mainly because it is a lighter green. If the backing was darker it would bring down the colour of the coaster.

The light blue lifts the colour of the coaster and makes it tonally lighter.

The red background makes the coasters hue saturated and dark.