Mixing

It’s been a while since I’ve added a new color swatches book/project to my collection and Daniel Mellis’ Risograph Barycentric Color Atlas is a doozy as it visually explores color mixing across twenty-four sets of 3-color combinations comprised of 13 ink colors on the Risograph. This approach really does a good job of showing off how Riso inks mix, and Daniel’s unusual book format also demonstrates printing on larger sheets than are commonly used with the Riso. I also discovered he’s designed and produces a pretty cool bookbinding signature punch tool. I wasn’t familiar with barycentric coordinates, and luckily Daniel offers a very simple explanation on the project page for the book: …taking one unit of mass and distributing it on the corners of the triangle. The point on which the triangle will balance is the center of mass, or the barycenter. Reply via e-mail or follow me at @scottboms@typo.social on Mastodon.