Colour dimensions is a simple paint colour system that was developed from painting for teaching purposes. It illustrates the different mixing directions (dimensions) of a colour based on subtractive colour mixing:
- Mixture with pure neighbouring colours
- Mixture with the complementary colour
- Mixture with achromatic colours: White, black, light grey, dark grey
The colour dimensions tool is a digitalised version of the paint colour system. 125 colours were scanned and visually matched to the original painted colours for the digital representation. These are not standardised colour tones, but an illustrative representation of the mixture of paints in the sense of an application-oriented form.
The digitalised colours can be mixed virtually in the tool and selected and combined with each other either specifically or intuitively. In addition, it enables - in the sense of an extended dimension - the virtual mixing of paints with coloured light.
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