Day 24: Warm & Cool

Colours have temperature. Warm colours — reds, oranges, yellows — tend to advance towards the viewer. Cool colours — blues, greens, violets — tend to recede. Painters have used this for centuries to create depth on a flat surface. In design, temperature can create space, separate layers and set an emotional tone.

Objective. Use colour temperature to create depth and spatial layers.

Design a poster for a mountain cabin weekend using warm and cool colours to create foreground and background.

• At least one warm and one cool colour
• Use temperature to create at least two spatial layers
• Simple shapes and typography
• Maximum four colours

• Clear spatial depth created through colour
• A coherent palette
• Readable information

Create depth using only cool colours of different temperatures.