The Color Compendium

by Augustine Hope, Margaret Walch
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Editorial Reviews

The Color Compendium is the first comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia entirely devoted to color. This extraordinary reference covers the full range of color-related subjects, including their scientific, technical, artistic, and historical aspects.

The Color Compendium features:
- An A to Z encyclopedia, extensively cross-referenced for easy access to all information
- A section of color systems, explaining their development and use
- Sections on color communication and symbolism
- Biographies of leading historical and contemporary color theorists, and commentaries on their ideas
- A fully illustrated section of historic and twentieth century palettes and their source artifacts

Customer Reviews

The Color Compendium, 2001-03-31
This is one of the most straightforward resources on color symbolism and usage that I have found. I did my thesis on symbolism and had to use MANY resources, this was one of most "user friendly". It would be the perfect desktop resource for a designer.

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