- Text & commentary: Foreword
- Introduction
- I. Color recollection : visual memory
- II. Color reading and contexture
- III. Why color paper : instead of pigment and paint
- IV. A color has many faces : the relativity of color
- V. Lighter and/or darker : light intensity, lightness
- VI. 1 color appears as 2 : looking like the reversed grounds
- VII. 2 different colors look alike : subtraction of color
- VIII. Why color deception? : after-image, simultaneous contrast
- IX. Color mixture in paper : illusion of transparence
- X. Factual mixtures : additive and subtractive
- XI. Transparence and space-illusion Color boundaries and plastic action
- XII. Optical mixture : after-image revised
- XIII. The Bezold Effect
- XIV. Color intervals and transformation
- XV. The middle mixture again : intersecting colors
- XVI. Color juxtaposition : harmony : quantity
- XVII. Film color and volume color : 2 natural effects
- XVIII. Free studies : a challenge to imagination
- XIX. The Masters : color instrumentation
- XX. The Weber-Fechner Law : the measure in mixture
- XXI. From color temperature to humidity in color
- XXII. Vibrating boundaries : enforced contours
- XXIII. Equal light intensity : vanishing boundaries
- XXIV. Color theories : color systems
- XXV. On teaching color : some color terms
- XXVI. In lieu of a bibliography : my first collaborators
- Resources: History of Interaction of color (video)
- Albers as a teacher (video)
- Color in practice (video)
The Interaction of color complete digital edition allows users to explore the book's ideas and experiment with color the way Albers intended. Users can navigate between the text, commentary, and 122 plates from the new complete edition (Yale University Press in association with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, 2009); take notes, highlight text, and bookmark chapters; use an embedded glossary to define key terms; and zoom into plates for additional detail. Inspired by Albers' teaching methodologies, each plate is designed to reproduce the experience of working with cut and colored paper. By moving the "pieces" of the plate, users can see how the same color can look different when shown on different grounds; create, save, and share their own color design exercises by downloading the SVG file to their favorite design software. Includes archival audio and video of Josef Albers and contemporary interviews with his former students on his teaching methods, as well as contemporary interviews with artists, designers, and architects discussing their use of color