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Study Task 01 - How Do You Read? - Colour Theory

In todays session we learnt about and how to identify colours, todays task we were put into groups of 3/4. In these groups we needed to consider how colour is most often used for the covers of fiction books from different genre. We had to only choice only 4 given genres from the list below and using the Pantone colour guides to help to find the dominant colour (or maybe a background colour or title colour) for each genre. This must be in our blogs and this includes the following:
  • That it would represent a typical cover colour choice
  • That it considers to be a less conformist yet interesting option
Friction Genre:
  • Chick Lit
  • Crime 
  • Fairy Tale 
  • Fantasy 
  • Historical Fiction 
  • Horror 
  • Humour
  • Mystery
  • Romance
  • Science Friction
  • Thriller
  • Western 
  • Young Adult 
The ones that my group selected were: Historical Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction and Fairy Tale.

 Historical Fiction - Colours 
For the Historical Friction colours, my group went with the solid uncoated swatches.

  • The general colour would be Pantone 872 U.
  • The alternative colour would be Pantone 8021 U.

 Romance - Colours

For the Romance colours, my group went with the solid coated swatches.
  • The general colour would be Pantone 234 C.
  • The alternative colour would be Pantone 252 C.



Science Friction - Colours 

For the Science Friction colours, my group decided to go with the solid coated swatches.
  • The general colour would be Pantone 3135 C.
  • The alternative colour would be Pantone 394 C.



Fairy Tale - Colours


For the Fairy Tale colours, we decided in the group that we wanted one solid uncoated and one solid coated swatches.

  • The general colour would be Pantone 215 U.
  • The alternative colour would be Pantone 214 C.








  
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