Minerals Color Palette

Color palette generation by observing minerals under different colored lights.

This project is done as part of 'Colors, Layout and Composition' course - Oct 2019

IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, India

Mineral Study

Mineral is a solid chemical compound that occurs naturally in pure form. They are most commonly associated with rocks due of the presence of the minerals within rocks. In geology and mineralogy the term ‘mineral’ is usually reserved for mineral species- crystalline compounds with a fairly well-defined composition and a specific crystal structure. And a crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all direction.

Why minerals have color?

Based on what causes color in Minerals, they are divided into two categories-

1. Idiochrometic Minerals- These minerals possess color because of reflection of light or luminescence and fluroscence.

2. Allochromatic Minerals- These minerals posses color because of charge transfer and impurities.

Mineral 1(Quartz crystals)

Mineral 2(Class- Zeolite- natrolite/siliblite)

Mineral 3(Agate)

Mineral 4(Chlorite)

Mineral 5(Arkemite)

Mineral 6(Agate-Quartz-Crypto)

Mineral 7(Unidentified by color)

Mineral 8(Quartz-micro)

Mineral 9(Crystalline Quartz from Geode)

Mineral 10(Iron + Chlorite + micro quartz crystal)

Minerals observation under directional light

Color Palettes