2. Additional texts for quick reading

LAVENDER

Graceful and Feminine: Lavender has long been a favorite flower and color of genteel ladies. This shade of purple suggests refinement along with grace, elegance, and something special.

Nature of Lavender: Purple and its lighter lavender shades has a special, almost sacred place in nature: lavender, orchid, lilac, and violet flowers are often delicate and considered precious.

Culture of Lavender: While purple is the color of royalty, lavender is the color of femininity. It's a grown up pink.

Lavender Words: These words are synonymous with lavender or represent various shades of the color lavender. Plum, lilac, thistle, orchid, mauve, purple.

BROWN

Down-to-Earth: Brown is a natural, down-to-earth neutral color. It is found in earth, wood, and stone.

Nature of Brown: Brown is a warm neutral color that can stimulate the appetite. It is found extensively in nature in both living and non-living materials.

Culture of Brown: Brown represents wholesomeness and earthiness. While it might be considered a little on the dull side, it also represents steadfastness, simplicity, friendliness, dependability, and health. Although blue is the typical corporate color, UPS (United Parcel Service) has built their business around the dependability associated with brown.

Language of Brown: The use of brown in familiar phrases can help a designer see how their color of choice might be perceived by others, both the positive and negative aspects.

Good brown

• Brown bottle - beer

• Brown - cook or burn

Bad brown

• Brown-nose - someone who attempts to ingratiate themselves with people of authority

• Brown study - someone who is aloof, indifferent

• Brown out - partial loss of electricity

Brown Words: These words are synonymous with brown or represent various shades of the color brown. Sienna, bay, sand, wood, dapple, auburn, chestnut, nut-brown, cinnamon, russet, tawny, chocolate, tan, brunette, fawn, liver-colored, mahogany, oak, bronze, terra-cotta, toast, umber, cocoa, coffee, copper, ecru, ginger, hazel, khaki, ochre, puce, snuff-colored.

3. Additional text for independent work Top 5 Easy Ways to Get Colour without a Colour Printer

When you don't have a colour printer you may think that everything you do has to be in black and white. Not so. There are some easy ways to get colourful designs even from a black and white laser printer. If you do have a colour printer, you can still use these tips to introduce more colours or to conserve ink. Creating a Colour Sampler Book, as described below, using papers, stamps, stickers, and foil is also a way to make choosing colour ideas for future projects fast and easy.

1) Change Your Paper: Colour and Preprinted Papers

Use colourful paper to get color into your designs. Do you collect or buy paper samples? Create a Colour Sampler Book. Design a page that consists of lines of text in several typefaces and sizes and some graphics, both line art and grayscale. Print this specimen sheet on several colours and types of paper (including white). Refer to your Colour Sampler book to get an idea how the paper colour will affect the text and graphics of your current project