SPECTRUM
SP 26-042 · Chroma Season
A colour course
in six weeks
CET, now
Sessions Thu 19:00
Six weeks on colour,taught as decisionsyou defend — not theoryyou memorise.
- FormatSix weeks, liveevery session recorded
- Starts12 JanuaryThursdays, 19:00 CET
- Price€390or 3 × €135
- Seats14 of 60capped, for the crits
W1
Hue
Which angle carries the argument.
W2
Saturation
Purity is a distance from grey.
W3
Temperature
Warm advances, cool recedes.
W4
The Dial
An instrument you build and keep.
W5
Contrast
Where the eye goes first.
W6
Harmony
A schedule, not a rule.
(Week 4 · the dial)350degrees — every colour
below is this one
(Curriculum)
Six weeks.
One decision
at a time.
- W1HueThe wheel is a fiction we agreed on.
- W2SaturationA palette with somewhere left to go.
- W3TemperatureEvery colour is an opinion about light.
- W4The DialOne angle drives a whole page.
- W5ContrastValue, hue, chroma, extent.
- W6HarmonyFinal crit on your own brief.
(Format · 1)
Live
Fixed: one time, one room, four hard corners. Thursdays, 19:00 CET, work on the table.
(Format · 2)
Recorded
The same session, edges softened: posted the same night, kept for twelve months.
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(Sessions)Thursdays
19:00 CET
4.1
Brand
Identity systems.
Colour as a voice.
4.2
Product
Interfaces.
Colour as a state.
4.3
Paper and ink.
Colour as a cost.
(Faculty)Three practitioners — everything taught is something all three have had to defend to a client.
Temperature
(Week 3)
Every colour is an opinion about light. Warm advances, cool recedes — and neither is neutral in context.
warm ←
→ cool
(Palette · 5)
Your
palette
- Dominant
- carries the argument
- Support
- two, never three
- Accent
- the five per cent
- Referee
- a grey that settles it
Seven swatches. One of them is the ground you just stood on.
S350
P020
E046
C096
T160
R200
U250
M290
(Palette · 6)A palette is a fan. Learn which blade to pull, and which to leave shut.
(This)—000°
(Opposite)—180°
(Harmony · 7)
Complementary
The wheel turns;
the windows keep
two opposites.
i
A defended palette
One brief, first hue to final crit, the reasoning written down.
ii
The dial, as code
The week-4 instrument, yours to drop into a real project.
iii
A contrast method
Value, then hue, then chroma, then extent — every time.
iv
Recordings
Every session and every crit, for twelve months.
(What you leave with · 8)
(The six weeks)One turn of the wheel
Colour is a decision, not a decoration
(Course)
Spectrum
- Format
- Six weeks, live
- Starts
- 12 January
- Price
- €390
- Seats
- 14 of 60
(Advice 1)Name the one hue your layout is about.
(Advice 2)Design for the bad screen: it throws saturation away first.
€390or three payments of €135
(Enrol · SP 26-042)
- Starts
- 12 January 2026
- Runs
- Six weeks, Thursdays 19:00 CET
- Seats
- 14 of 60 remaining
- Refund
- Full, until the end of week one
Placeholder pricing and dates — swap them for the real ones before this goes anywhere near a customer.
(Questions)
Do I need to know colour theory already?
No. Week one starts at the wheel and why it is a convenient lie. What you do need is a project to apply it to.
What if I miss a live session?
Every session is recorded and posted the same night. Crit weeks are worth attending live — that is where your own work gets looked at.
Is there a certificate?
No. You leave with a defended palette and the instrument you built, which is a better thing to show.
Which tools?
Any. Examples are given in Figma and in plain CSS, and the week-4 build is vanilla JavaScript.