Which color leads?
A color study in proportion and hierarchy. Three colors, one frame, three regions — only the amount of space each color occupies changes.
The arrangement
Three colors. One frame. Three regions holding the same amounts of space in every arrangement. The only thing that changes is which color occupies which region — each color takes the largest, the middle and the smallest region exactly once.
This set divides the frame 60 / 30 / 10. That split belongs to this study, not to color generally: a palette can hold two colors, or three, or four. What holds across all of them is that unequal area creates a lead.
The question
Which color reads as the lead? This is a question about hierarchy — which color the composition organizes itself around. It is not a question about which color you noticed first. Those are different things, and this study keeps them apart deliberately.
Lineage
Observed from — historical color-study material associated with Sanzo Wada.
Tested through — three arrangements holding everything constant except which color occupies which region.
What we found — not yet. This study is open and still collecting. When there is something worth stating it will be stated here, with what it rests on and where it stops.
Inspired by the historic color studies of Sanzo Wada.