In design2026 — present
A controlled comparison of colour harmony models
With: Prof. Pakizar Shamoi
The question
Do the classical harmony rules — the colour wheel and its descendants — predict what people actually find harmonious, when tested under controlled conditions?
What the evidence supports
At this stage the literature review is complete and the experiment is being designed. No comparison has been run.
Approach
A colour space grounded in people
The colour space for the study comes from COLIBRI — roughly 86 colours in HSI, built from a human categorization survey rather than from device coordinates. Using a perceptually grounded space matters here: testing a theory of harmony inside a space that does not match human categorization would confound the two.
Findings
No results yet — the work is at the design stage.
What this does not show
- Nothing has been measured yet — the literature review is the only completed stage.