How to Not Suck at Color - 5 color theory tips every designer should know

In my opinion, you must define the style of the design. For example, if you have decided going for a elegant style, you may consider using one or two colours. And if you go for a more crazy style, maybe you can use three colours or more.

Brown isn’t a neutral color; brown is dark orange.

I'm a scientist by training and one skill that is usually not tought, but extremely useful, is how make informative graphics that bring data and theories across without confusing the readers of your papers and reports. Making plots and figures always has been one of my favorite parts of the writing process and using colors appropriately was what finally made me appreciate my own works. The most valuable lessons I learned are: a) less is more and b) grey-scales and pastell colors are your best friends. Colors, especially bright, strong ones, draw a lot of attention. And the neutrals and less pressing colors just make the points of attention stand out even more. I just wish there were more courses in design, writing, and speaking for scientists. It would make my worklife so much less tedious.

All of your videos are very great, clear, so so so helpful
Many many thanks

My favourite colour is yellow but I naturally love black and white, it just looks elegant at sight.

Great video.

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Yio

😊really nice flow and rhythm in this presentation. Loved your smooth voice-over, Thank you!

Like ur talking expression 👍
And don't know why, but ur face remind me of Paul Giamatti 😁

THIS!! Thank you for such an amazing video!!!!!

The music analogy finally helped me understand this.

Light colours are very bright and Thus, use a color relative to black or dark colours and this draws our eyes to the dark colour... Dont you a very dark colour or a light colour!

Favorite tips: I love the contrast one combining with grey scale to check.

Great tips for beginners. Should be obvious for experienced designers :)

LOL. At the beginning I thought you were Larry on the old TV show "Newhart".

My favorite color tip is just the tip. Giggity.

Oh yeah - thanks for the super helpful vid!

Using black sparingly, draws the eye in. Using it liberally can overpower a piece.

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Another good tip to check color values is : On windows, go to Ease of Access > Color Filters and change the color filter to "grayscale". Then you can press Ctrl + Win + C to switch back and forth. You can even screenshot an image on grayscale

Jesus christ that thumbnail looks creepy

Imagine caring about any of this bullshit

Thanks for the tip about saturation! I tend to default to using the highest saturation settings for my colors.

Also, who does typography in Photoshop? I use Blender for that.

Just set up my photoshop to be able to fast swap to greyscale. Then I checked many of my recent thumbnails, and was pleasantly surprised how good the contrast was

And respectfully how tf did you become an authority?? I gotta know that from the get-go

I've had those same Sennheiser HD 25's for over 20 years. They've been through a lot and they still sound amazing!

Thank you, man)))

This is the best desighn video i ever watched in my life especially about the colors. Thank you very much.

Me, a random artist: man I just throw some random hobbphle together and see if it looks good
Person looking at my art: damn! Those colors look good together!

This just comes naturally to me. It's common sense.
I think this comes hard for left brained people.

Next lesson: Choosing headwear to look like a human condom

This was so well put together.

Lately I've been loving the triple analogy of food-music-visuals. There are so many transferrable lessons between the three!

Favorite tip: there are no rules as colors are subjective

My favorite thing in this video is that your scene composition in the background follows your rules of colors perfectly.

haha Color coloUr :P

I guess it's the same as having good hearing in music. It's a talent few people have. Or a taste for shapes for pencil drawing. Yes, you can study a lot and get quite good at constructing or combining colors. But the taste defines high skill. You can't just learn that logically or by trying a billion times. I can take all your tips and I will still suck. I guess I'm too logical for color. I'd say "anything is great". And then I get my eye "soapy" after a short time working with color. I can see less and less. You know color illusions? That's what I ALWAYS see. Always wrong colors. I can see white of my screen yellowish. Or bluish. Or gray. It sways to my mood, I'd never tell what color is it. Yeah, seeing masters' paintings is extremely pleasing, I understand color... But only when someone does it for me. Same as you may enjoy music and tell good from bad but not be able to sing notes and tell one from another.

tip #1 should be: use sRGB color space

This great!!! That Greyscale Tip💯

Super high production quality and valuable information. I wasn’t bored for a second.

This is so great. thank you!

I am good at color theory, color psychology, and how to use colors to better my life. :)

Greg's videos on color have completely changed my color game. Now I have a strategy for succeed everytime,

This was helpful. Thank you so much.

Hi ! love you video that's so helpful :-)
quick question : I don't understand why, in the color harmony from procreate, complementary doesn't seem right in the color wheel. For example for yellow, the complementary color procreate proposes is blue and not purple ... why is that ? And for red, it's a also a different shade of blue (close to green) and not a shade of green :-( I'm lost haha