Better than any other book on color combinations, Leslie Cabarga clarifies not only color harmony but color arrangement. I believe his approach to color harmony makes far more sense than color wheels and rainbow illustrations. By taking good examples throughout history, one can get not only a flavor of what works, but can see the color in context. Some combinations repeat themselves, but in different contexts they look different as well.
By putting in the CMYK percentages, it is very easy to transfer the colors to a computer for immediate use. For those who are artistically challenged (such as this reviewer), there is a refreshing sense to Cabarga's work. He shows very clearly why bad color combinations are such and why good ones that work do in fact work. Each example is provided in a sensible context rather than a stack of colors, and most valuable is Cabarga's use of variations of the same color set to illustrate how radically different the same group of colors look in different arrangements.
I also liked Cabarga's comments about key illustrators and their subject matter--even including expressing doubts about Paul Whiteman being the King of Jazz. Cabarga seems to know his artists and doesn't mind expressing any opinon that comes to mind whether on artists or the state of just about anything. Moreover, his opinions never get in the way of his discussion of color. (Even the opinions are colorful.) It's good to know books are still written by human beings rather than grey committees.
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Personally, I found this book to be a poor example of colour combinations. The submitted photograph shows an example of one of the pages, which are all set up the same. I gave it a One Star rating only because I could not give a No Star.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2022
Personally, I found this book to be a poor example of colour combinations. The submitted photograph shows an example of one of the pages, which are all set up the same. I gave it a One Star rating only because I could not give a No Star.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2016
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Stunning and unmissable for anyone interested in color use
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Good book for helping with colour use in artwork
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