Color Index: Over 1100 Color Combinations, CMYK and RGB Formulas, for Print and Web Media

Color Index: Over 1100 Color Combinations, CMYK and RGB Formulas, for Print and Web Media | Jim Krause | Need help with colors, this book is it!

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	Color Index: Over 1100 Color Combinations, CMYK and RGB Formulas, for Print and Web Media Jim Krause How, 2002 - 360 pages average customer review:based on 53 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The best-selling author of Idea Index and Layout Index returns with an all-new title! Color Index provides more than one thousand color combinations and formulas--guaranteed to help graphic artists solve design dilemmas and create effective images for both print and the Web.

From progressive colors to natural tones, Color Index makes choosing hues for any job easier! Designers will start working with color in exciting new ways and create original, eye-catching designs that pop off the page. It's all the inspiration they need to explore and experiment with color as never before!

Just like the other clever little design books in this series, Color Index is portable, packed with inspiration, and neatly packaged in a colorful, sturdy vinyl jacket.

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No shelf should be without it!

The Color Index along with its siblings are by far the most referenced handbook in my collection. I use this in conjunction with my Pantone books. The possibilities are endless. No shelf should be without it!

Need help with colors, this book is it!

Gives you great combinations, layed out in themes. Very easy to use. Plus has exact CMYK/RBG numbers so you can type in the numbers and get the exact colors as the book. Great for painters, designers, artists, or anyone using colors for thier products or home. You can even use it on Microsoft Paint!

Incredibly Helpful

I admit, I was skeptical at first. Just a bunch of color combinations with RGB and CMYK formulas? Heck, I could do that. So I thought. Now I'm totally hooked on it. It's INCREDIBLY helpful for coming up with color combinations for brochures, ads, promo materials, web design, you name it. Pantone swatches are nice, but they don't include suggestions for color combinations by an excellent designer.

I love the way the book is set up, with everything from intense colors to muted ones. It really helps with ideas, and saves a lot of time. Jim's a great designer - very creative and funny and humble. He can make a very complex thing seem simple - GREAT book, highly recommended!

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Not for everyone

I am not a designer. It was only after I bought this that I realized I was really looking for inspiration (for clothing and interior). The color index contains a lot of color combinations, but presented in a way that did not work for me. Somehow all the color combinations look boring, perhaps because there are many similar color combinations packed together on small pages, with tiny images. For my purposes, "A Book of Colors" by Shigenobu Kobayashi was better. It contains less color combinations and no rgb values, but there are less very similar combinations on a single page, and the images are slightly bigger. The result is more inspiring to me. So the color index is not for everyone.

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