2D Game Art

Color Shortcuts

Relying on colors from other games to show safety, danger, magic, and so on can jumpstart you and isn't "cheating." Coins are famously golden yellow from Nintendo's Super Mario and

What is this Course About?

Making games look amazing! Or terrifying, or peaceful, or godlike or what you thought the future would look like when you were six. In this course, you'll be learning about

Colors to Argue Over

Preferences for colors are not only about clarity and usability. Color's meanings differ for each of us based on what they communicate and our own tastes. Color speaks! NOTE (more

Warm and Cool Colors

Warm and Cool Greys One of the meanings of color is temperature. More light in an area means warmer colors, ranging from red to yellow. As light falls off, though,

Prototyping with Color: Walkthrough

In the times before color generators like Paletton and Coolors.co, our 1990's ancestors drafted color schemes with markers by choosing a key (main) color, a complimentary color (across the color

Color Contexts

No color alone is good or bad, but the same color can shift if we change the colors around it. [ two images, colored differently to show focus (ideally of