A Century of Color in Books
Books on Color Combinations and Choosing Color Palettes
While color has experienced trends where certain shades and specific combinations were favored and others discouraged, today almost anything goes if it is appropriate for the audience and the project. The trick is finding the color combination that speaks for the client and to the intended audience.
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Check your local bookstore or favorite online bookseller for all of these books about color selection:
- The Designer's Guide to Color Combinations: 500+ Historic and Modern Color Formulas in CMYK
by Leslie Cabarga
North Light Books
ISBN 0891348573
(source of the color palettes found in this article)
- Process Color Manual, 24,000 CMYK Combinations for Design, Prepress, and Printing
by Michael Rogondino
Chronicle Books
ISBN 0811827577
- Pantone Guide to Communicating With Color
by Leatrice Eiseman
Hand Book Press
ISBN 0966638328
- Interaction of Color
by Josef Albers
Yale University Press
ISBN 0300018460
- Color Harmony Workbook: A Workbook and Guide to Creative Color Combinations
by Lesa Sawahata
Rockport Publishers
ISBN 1564964353
- A Book of Colors: Matching Colors, Combining Colors, Color Designing, Color Decorating
by Shigenobu Kobayashi
Kodansha International
ISBN 0870118005
- Designer's Guide to Color
also editions 2, 3, 4, and 5
by James Stockton, Ikuyoshi Haishoku Shibukawa
Chronicle Books
ISBN 0877013179
