pskfyi/color-systems

Color Systems

Note: This is a first draft and a work in progress.

Game design investigations into color systems in the style of Magic the Gathering. These investigations can be applied just as well to element systems (ex. fire/water/earth/air) or other ways of categorizing game entities, and can be applied to non-card games.

Topics

• Core Concepts
  • Design Principles
  • Color Wheels
  • Tranches
  • Color Identities
  • Colorless
• Color Spaces
  • Colors and Languages [forthcoming]
  • Colors Across Domains [forthcoming]
• Colors Themes
  • Color Themes and Culture [forthcoming]
• Multicolor
  • Feasibility
  • Combination and Synthesis
  • Color Pairs
  • Color Trios
  • Prismatic Color Identity
• By The Numbers
  • 3-Color Systems
  • 4-Color Systems
  • 5-Color Systems
  • 6-Color Systems
  • 7-Color Systems
  • 8-Color Systems
  • 9-Color Systems
  • 10-Color Systems
  • 11-Color Systems
  • 12-Color Systems