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How to choose a good color palette

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Colors are beautiful. The one who can not feel color made impressions, looses a lot. The colors and their internal relationships are very sensitive, and to find ones that look great together are very hard task to accomplish and only experienced artist can do that. Or maybe not? Today we will look through some of main color concepts which will let you find some nice color pairs or trios. One thing that’s important to note is that one color alone is boring, and is not making an effect. The magic relies in their relationships. You should start creating your palette by choosing two or three base colors from color wheel. Choosing more will lead in chaos. Choosing only one usually will be too boring. Of course there are cases, where using monotone is preferred, especially if you want to create a very relaxing atmosphere. Here are two colors i like. Here is online color wheel you can try out. If two colors are used as base, than it is a good idea to pick complimentary colors. Complimen...

What is the color of mirror?

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The reason why mirror reflects all of the light beams in the same angle as light beams hit mirror surface is because mirrors are perfectly flat. And because all light reflects from mirror maintaining it's original angle, image is perfectly reflected and reconstructed.  All objects absorbs all light waves that hits it, except the lightwaves with color into which an object is itself. For example EU flag will absorb green, red, pink, orange, etc., but will reflect blue light waves. One exception needs to be mentioned here. There is no corresponging lightwave for black color and white color. Human eye indicates that object is white, if object reflects (or emits) all possible visible light waves. And in contrast black is indicated if there is no lightwaves. Mirrors are manufactured out of aluminium. Aluminiums is used because of it's suitable physical properties, and because it is almost white. Yes, aluminium is not perfect. It would be more better if aluminum was white. If you look...