About the Author

Tina Sutton is the president and founder of Fashion Services, a consulting firm specializing in fashion and color marketing as well as tracking and forecasting consumer trends. She writes a weekly fashion column for the Boston Globe Magazine and speaks regularly on fashion and consumer trends. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Bride M. Whelan, an instructor at Parsons School of Design, New York City, teaches basic and advanced courses in color theory. She lectures extensively on a variety of design-related topics. For many years Whelan taught graphic design at Paier College of Art, New Haven, Connecticut. She lives in New York.

Book Description

The Complete Color Harmony is from Rockport Publishers’ best-selling series that includes, Color Harmony and Color Harmony 2. This book expands upon the two previous editions for the most comprehensive color reference to date. Along with some basic color theory, the book provides hundreds of one, two, and three-color combinations selected to reflect a range of moods and adjectives.

This edition includes information on creating special effects using metallic and fluorescent color palettes, as well as an entirely new section devoted to the psychology of color. In Complete Color Harmony, authors Tina Sutton and Bride M. Whelan help readers determine their best colors and suggests why some colors may inspire their creativity while others don’t.

The book also includes two new color palette sections reflecting black and white as the color base, along with an expanded and updated Color Trends section that discusses not only trends and how they are predicted but gives advice on how to be a trend spotter.