Sender: mimiau Yufeng, message area: ASCIIArt Title: Color matching skills mimiau@pku Sending station: Peking University Weiming Station April 06, 2004 12:10:23 Tuesday, forwarded 1. Principles of color matching 1. Distinctive characteristics The color used in a picture must have its own unique style so that it can appear distinctive and leave a deep impression on the viewer. Impression 2. Reasonable matching When coloring, people’s physiological characteristics must be considered. Color matching must be reasonable to give people a harmonious and pleasant feeling. Avoid using large areas of bright colors and flashes, which can easily cause visual fatigue. 3. Pay attention to artistry According to the principle that content determines form, boldly carry out artistic innovation and design pictures with certain artistic characteristics. 2. Issues to pay attention to when matching colors 1. Use monochrome Avoid using a single color. You can make the picture richer by adjusting light and dark colors. 2. Use adjacent colors The so-called adjacent colors are colors that are adjacent to each other on the color belt. For example, green and blue, red and yellow are adjacent to each other. Near colors. Adopting adjacent color designs can avoid color clutter in the picture and make it easy to achieve harmony and unity in the picture. 3. Use contrasting colors Contrasting colors can highlight key points and produce strong visual effects. Proper use of contrasting colors can make the features of the work more vivid. Clearly, the key points are highlighted. When designing, one color is generally used as the main color, and contrasting colors are used as embellishments, which can serve as the finishing touch. The role of eyes 4. Use of black Black is a special color. If used properly and designed properly, it often produces strong artistic effects. Black Generally used as background color and used in combination with other colors 5. Use of background color Generally speaking, the background color should contrast strongly with the color of the text. 6. Number of colors Generally, beginners tend to use a variety of colors when painting, making the work very colorful and lacking unity and coordination. It looks fancy on the surface but lacks inner beauty. In fact, the more colors the better, it is generally controlled within Within three colors, create changes by adjusting color brightness illustrate: This article is adapted from the web color matching design of "Near Earth Linfeng@Image China Visual Forum" Ji Art Because the original article is about web page color matching, I have a different understanding of it from asciiart. Some parts have been deleted and modified.