Design Principles: Colour Theory - Task

To lead on from the colour theory work we were set a task where we had to bring in 20 objects of one colour. The colour I was assigned was red. We then had to organise them in our groups so they went in a spectrum, because red was fading into orange we went from dark to light. We encountered a few problems with this:

• If an object had text or other colours on it affected how it looked because we were not staring at one colour it blended in with others.
• The material the object was made from - it was easier with opaque matt surfaces as it was solid colour, however objects like packaging reflected a lot of light and meant it has hard to get a true colour. 
• The hues and saturation made it hard to distinguish between shades.

What originally seemed like a simple task became very challenging. After this was completed we returned to our original colour groups and then had to pick out the purest/middle red, the lightest red, the darkest red, saturated red and desaturated red. Once they were all picked out we had to find the correct pantone colour for them.

In the centre is the reddest red. Either side shows the lightest and darkest and the top and the bottom show the saturated and desaturated. It was hard to match some colours with the pantone selection, for example the stamps were hard to match because there wasn't a red bright enough and the material had a shine to it.