RecommendED COLOR RESOURCES
“Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist’s brain.”
– Henri Matisse
BOOKS:
Albers, Josef, The Interaction of Color (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1963)
Batchelor, David, Chromophobia (London, England: Reaktion Books, Ltd., 2000)
Batchelor, David, Colour: Documents of Contemporary Art (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008)
Beal, Stephen, The Very Stuff (Loveland, CO: Interweave Press, 1995)
Birren, Faber, Color & Human Response (New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1978)
Birren, Faber, Itten: The Elements of Color (New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, Co., 1970)
Carle, Eric, Hello Red Fox (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998)
Designer’s Guide to Color (San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1984)
Designer’s Guide to Color, Vol. 2 (San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1984)
Designer’s Guide to Color, Vol. 3 (San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1984)
Edwards, Betty, Color: A Master Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors (New York, NY: Penguin Group Inc., 2004)
Eiseman, Leatrice and Recker, Keith: PANTONE: The 20th Century in Color (San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, Pantone LLC., 2011)
Finlay, Victoria, Color: A Natural History of the Palette (New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2002)
Gage, John, Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning From Antiquity to Abstraction (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993)
Gruppe, Emile, Gruppe on Color (New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1979)
Itten, Johannes, The Art of Color (New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1961)
Kobayashi, Shigenobu, A Book of Colors (Japan: Nippon Color & Design Research Institute, Inc., 1987)
Kobayashi, Shigenobu, Colorist: A Practical Handbook for Personal and Professional Use (Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International Ltd., 1998)
Kueppers, Harald, Color Atlas: A Practical Guide for Color Mixing (Woodbury, NY: Barron's Books, 1982)
LeClair, Charles, Color in Contemporary Painting (New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1991)
Leland, Nita, Exploring Color: How to Use and Control Color in Your Paint (Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books, 1998)
Lindsay, Janice, All About Color (Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2008)
Lionni, Leo, little blue and little yellow (Harper Collins Publishers, 1959)
Livingstone, Margaret, Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing (New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2002)
Malloy, Vanja, Intersecting Colors: Josef Albers and His Contemporaries (Amherst, MA: The Amherst College Press, 2015)
Menz, Deb, ColorWorks (Loveland, CO: Interweave Press, 2004)
Munsell, Albert H., Munsell Book of Color (Baltimore, MD: Munsell Color Company, Inc., 1929)
Pastoureau, Michel: Green: The History of a Color (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014)
Paterson, Ian, A Dictionary of Colour (London: England, Thorogood Publishing Ltd., 2004)
Ridgway, Robert, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature (Washington D.C.: R. Ridgway, 1912)
Riley, Charles A. II, Color Codes (Hanover and London, England: University Press of New England, 1995)
Schopenhauer, Arthur, On Vision and Colors (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010)
Temkin, Ann, Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today (New York, NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 2008)
Theroux, Alexander, The Primary Colors (New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1994)
Theroux, Alexander, The Secondary Colors (New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1996)
Verner-Bonds, Lillian, The Complete Book of Color Healing (New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Company, 2000)
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, Theory of Colours (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1970)
Wilcox, Michael, Blue and Yellow Don’t Make Green: Or How to Mix the Color You Really Want – Every Time (Rockport, MA: North Light Books, 1990)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Remarks on Colour (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1978)
Websites and Color Tools:
Hal Reed’s analogous color wheel
