Color & Color Theory: Online Resources

This tool allows designers to create color schemes using a color wheel, which can then be exported to Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign.

This website provides dozens of brief articles on color theories and theoreticians from Antiquity to the modern era.

This link from Munsell Color website offers several articles on how the Munsell Color Notation and Color System works.

This link offers a list of research summaries that discuss research on color and psychology.

This link offers a list of research summaries that discuss research on color theory and human behavior.

The Josef & Annie Albers Foundation offers several great resources for researchers and designers, including these four short videos from Josef Albers’s 1966 lecture on color theory.

This link offers the FULL video of the 1966 lecture “The Logic and Magic of Color.” Excerpts of the video have been made available through the foundation’s website as well (link above).

The Pantone webpage offers a range of important tools for scholars and designers including articles, color charts, and services.

This website features several articles on several pigments, providing information on history of use, technical details, and how each pigment is made.