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Colour: Harmony, Mood and Contrast

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Graphic Design, lesson 2 of 8. Pupils read hex codes as amounts of red, green and blue, use the screen colour wheel to choose complementary, analogous and monochromatic palettes, and check that words are easy to read with contrast numbers. They colour a made-up festival poster three ways in Image…

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook — 1.07
  2. Do Now — Purpose and Audience
  3. How Screens Make Colour
  4. Read a Hex Code
  5. Find the Complement, Then Check It
  6. Hinge Check — What Is Complementary?
  7. Four Harmonies and the Moods They Make
  8. Build an Analogous Palette Together
  9. Readable or Not?
  10. Make It — Three Palettes, One Poster
  11. Re-Poll — What Is Complementary Now?
  12. Homework 1
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