Color & light : navigating color mixing in the midst of an LED revolution, a handbook for lighting designers / Clifton Taylor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Explore and experiment -- Why color? -- What is color? -- Primary colors in light -- Other spectral colors -- The color circle and color spaces -- Additive color mixing revisited -- Subtractive mixing -- What is white light? -- Saturation -- Color dominance -- Monochromatic and polychromatic palettes -- Color rendering, limited spectrum sources, and new color spaces -- Revisiting dominant and recessive colors -- Dimming, dousing and redshift -- Additive mixing in a world of LEDs -- Color paths revisited -- Metamerism : developing a new language of color -- Creating work that can be reproduced -- Conclusion: Where we are going -- Appendix A : Design for a lighting lab -- Appendix B : A form for recording mixed colors.

Color & Light is an essential practical guide to how color works in light. Written from the perspective of a theatrical lighting designer, it discusses how to see color, how to construct effective lighting palettes, and how to make use of both color filters and color-mixing LED fixtures to create compositions that work well with scenery and costumes to tell compelling stories.We are presently at the leading edge of a revolution in theatrical lighting, redefining how it can be used to create and communicate. Today's LED-based additive color-mixing fixtures require new methodologies and new ways of thinking, and Color & Light directly addresses this technology's potentials and challenges. But underpinning lighting's many recent technological changes is the fundamental language of color that artists have worked with since the birth of humanity's artistic urges.