Color design support system considering color harmony

Color design is very important for a product design. In this paper, we propose a system which aims to support such a color design. Proposed system is composed of 5 parts, such as the part which evaluates the harmony of colors, the color combining part, color scheme image judging part, image word output part and lastly image comparison part. First, the system requires the user to input a color and his preferring image of color scheme including his inputting color with image keyword. Next, the system selects colors from the Munsell color database, which are in harmony with the color inputted into the system. Then, the system builds color schemes to combine the color inputted by the user with the colors selected from the database by the system. Finally, images of the color schemes are evaluated and outputted the color combinations whose images accord with the image keyword which the user inputs into the system. Experimental result shows that effective judgments of color harmony and color image are executed and we can get some good color schemes by the system.