Colour Schemes

I used one of my book cover drafts that I created and I coloured it using different colour schemes. I did four different colour schemes, that were monochromatic, triadic, analogous and complementary.

Monochromatic

                  

For my monochromatic colour scheme, I used a pink colour palette. I used various values if the colour; dark, medium and pale. This colour palette has connotations of love and relationships, this links with the theme of the whole unit which is relationships. It also links to the story that I chose to do, the fault in our stars, as this is about love and relationships. This colour palette has used just one hue, meaning that this palette is unified.

                 

Triadic

For the Triadic colour scheme, I used a colour palette of green, blue and orange. These colours a like a triangle on the colour wheel. The use of green, connotates strong emotion, which is in correspondence with being safe, which links to the theme and story as, they feel safe together. The colour blue, represents peace, which links to the story and theme. Orange suggests joy and happiness, which links to the feeling of being in a relationship and represents the happiness that they have within the story.

                   

Analogous

For the analogous I used a colour palette of yellow and orange, as the are next to each other on the colour wheel and I mixed the two colours together and created a yellows/orange colour. I used these colours as they represent joy and happiness, which links to the theme of relationships and the story which I am basing my book cover around, which connotates the happiness and enjoyment within the sorry.

                  

Complementary

For the complementary colour scheme, I used a colour palette of green and pink, in which I used various values of the colours. These colours compliment each other as they are opposite each other on the colour wheel. These colours help to represent the theme of relationships, because of the connotations that they have, green has connotations of safe and emotion and pink has connotations of love. This links in well with the theme of relationships and the story, The Fault In Our Stars.

This is a colour scheme that I did, with a draft that I made. I decided to do a black and blue/green colour scheme because I thought that it would fit in with the theme of my book cover which is The Fault In Our Stars and I felt the colours were relevant. I follows a monochromatic cour scheme because it goes from the black of the colour to the actual blue colour, which shows the gradient of the colour as well.