Color Value

by C. R. Clifford

Warm Colors or luminous colors are those having normal yellow or red in the preponderance.

Advancing Colors. Reds and bright yellow arouse the nerve sense more quickly than blue or tones of color predominating in blue. Hence they are called advancing colors.

Receding Colors. Blue colors or colors in which blue predominate or the exciting influences of yellow or red are subjugated, are cold or receding colors.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

		Paragraph.		Page.
Adjoining Rooms		[38 to 47]
Advancing Colors		[77], [78], [79], [80], [89]
Angles, Illusion of		[113], [114], [115], [117]
Artificial Light, Colors of				[86]
Balance of Pattern		[75], [76]
Borders		[61], [62], [81], [86]
Bric-à-brac		[60], [89]
Black, The Use of		[33]
Color Nomenclature		[9]
Complexion		[160]
Contrasting Colors		[12], [14 to 24]
Contrast Analogies		[17 to 20]
Ceiling		[37], [42], [43], [93]
Curtains		[53 to 56]
Cove and Ceiling		[56]
Cornice		[63]
Chair Coverings		[64]
Colors that Give Size to a Room		(See [Receding Colors])
Carpet		[81]
Color Sympathies		[95]
Curves, The Use of		[107], [108], [111], [114], [116], [118]
Color Terms		[120 to 134]
Chart		[127]
Dress, Depressing Influences		[161]
Dress, Woman’s		[160]
Decorative Illumination		[141]
Definitions				[89]
Draperies				[42], [43]
Decorative Proportions				[37]
Exciting Colors		[94], [160]
Frieze, The Use of		(See [Wall Proportions], also [Room Combinations])
Floors		[42], [81], [84], [86], [87]		[42], [43]
Gray, The Use of		[32], [91], [92]
Guide to Color Harmony		[127]
Harmonies Mechanically Determined		[132]
Height Effects		[75], [76]
Harmony of Analogy		[13], [17], [27], [93]
Harmonies		[10]
Illusion in the Use of Lines		[107 to 119]
Intensification of Color		[31], [33], [159]
Joy in Lines		(See [Curves])
Lights and Shadows		[158]
Lighting a Room, Candle-power Needed		[157]
Light Installation				[84]
Light, Effect on Color				[82]
Luminous Colors		(See [Advancing Colors])
Large Room, Dark				[34]
Low-Ceiling Rooms		[58]
Large Rooms		[58]
Large, Well-Lighted Rooms		[26]		[34]
Light		[1], [8]
Mixing Colors		[8]
Neutrals		[121]
National Types of Color				[47], [48]
Nature Colors		[35], [96]
North Light		[37], [59], [90], [91]
Proportions in Color Contrast		[22 to 24], [28 to 30], [35]
Pigments, The Use of		[22]
Proportions Effected by Design		(See [Decorative Proportions])
Proportions Effected by Color		[77]
Period Uses of Color				[47], [48]
Psychology of Color		[94]
Picture Moldings		[50]
Plate-Rails		[48 to 59]
Progression of Color		[34], [39]
Prismatic Colors		[6], [7], [8]
Room Combinations				[23 to 28]
Rugs		[81], [84]
Rooms Under Normal Conditions				[42], [43]
Receding Colors		[77], [80], [89]
Reflection		[5], [135], [155], [156]
Spectrum		[1]
Small Dark Rooms		[21]		[35]
Small Well-Lighted Rooms		[25]		[35]
Sequence of Color		[34], [35], [36], [41]
South Light		[37], [59]
Side-wall		[48 to 57], [92]
Small Room, High Ceiling				[35]
Small Room, Low Ceiling				[35]
Side-wall as Keynote		[92]
Straight Lines, Effect of		[107], [109], [111-113], [115-117], [119]
Seriousness in Lines		(See [Straight Lines])
Spectrum Theories		[121], [122]
Trade Terms Meaningless		[124], [125]
Taste in Color, to Determine		[94]
White, The Use of		[31], [33], [88], [89], [98], [159], [160]
Wood Trims		[48 to 59]
Wainscoting		[48 to 57], [62], [93]		[42], [43]
Width Effects		[82 to 85], [87]
Wall Proportions				[33 to 34]