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Colour Scale
The consideration of the different sizes of areas of hue, value, and chroma within a design, mirroring the design principle of scale within the colour dimension.
“Colour scale is distinct from colour proportion - proportion concerns overall amounts, scale concerns the sizes of individual colour areas and how they relate to each other.”
Colour scale considers the different sizes of areas of hue, value, and chroma in a design - for example, using unequal amounts of two colours of equal value creates a scale relationship between their areas. It mirrors the design principle of scale and must be coordinated with it. Where colour proportion concerns the relative amounts of each colour overall, colour scale concerns the physical sizes of individual colour areas: how large is this patch of intense colour? How small is that accent? Scale relationships between colour areas affect the rhythm, balance, and dominance of the whole design. Source: Pampling (130).
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