Color Wheel - Find Your Color Combination
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What is a Color Wheel?
A color wheel is a circular diagram that organizes colors based on their chromatic relationship, providing a visual representation of the color spectrum. It serves as a fundamental tool for artists, designers, and anyone working with color, aiding in the understanding of color theory and its applications.
The wheel typically consists of 12 colors, with primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) spaced evenly around the circumference. Secondary colors (green, orange, and purple) are derived by mixing adjacent primary colors, while tertiary colors result from combining a primary color with its neighbouring secondary color. This arrangement creates a harmonious flow of colors, demonstrating their relationships and facilitating the selection of complementary, analogous, or triadic color schemes.
The color wheel is grounded in the principles of color theory, a conceptual framework that explores how colors interact and influence each other. It provides a visual guide for artists and designers to create aesthetically pleasing compositions and convey specific emotions or messages through color choices. The wheel is often accompanied by terms such as hue, saturation, and brightness, which further refine the understanding of color properties.
Color combinations
Complementary
Two colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel. This combination provides a high contrast and high impact color combination – together, these colors will appear brighter and more prominent.
Monochromatic
Three different versions of a single color - darker, lighter, and in-between. Together,they create a calm and traditional mix of colors. This combination is easy to use in designs and gives a balanced and pleasing appearance.
Analogous
Three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel work well together.This combo is flexible but might be too much if overused. To keep it balanced,pick one main color and use the others as smaller details.
Triadic
Select three colors that are evenly distributed around the color wheel. These colors offer a robust contrast without being as intense as complementary colors. They are versatile and can create vibrant and dynamic combinations.
Tetradic
Four colors that are equally spread out on a color wheel. Tetradic color schemes are bold and work best if you have one main color and use the others as highlights. It's harder to balance your palette with more colors.
Primary, secondary and tertiary colors
On the RGB color wheel, there are 12 main colors. These colors are red, orange,yellow, green, blue, violet, magenta, rose, and some shades in between like chartreuse green, spring green, cyan, and azure.
The color wheel has three main groups: primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.
The primary colors in the RGB color wheel are like the building blocks of light. When you mix them together, they create white light. These special colors are red, green, and blue.
Secondary colors are created by mixing two main colors together. There are three secondary colors: cyan, magenta, and yellow. In the RGB color system, mixing light shows that red and green make yellow, green and blue make cyan,and blue and red make magenta.
Tertiary colors are made by mixing a secondary color with a primary color. Six tertiary colors are present. blue, violet, orange, rose, spring green, and yellow.
Warm and cool colors
The color wheel can be divided into warm and cool colors. Warmth or coolness of a color is called its color temperature. Color combinations on the wheel usually mix warm and cool colors in a balanced way. In color psychology, warm colors make us think of comfort and energy, while cool colors bring a feeling of calmness and being alone.
Warm colors are colors like red, orange, and yellow. They remind us of warmth, like the sun.
Cool colors like blue, green, and purple make us think of cool things like water.
Shades, tints and tones
You can make different versions of a color by mixing it with black, grey, or white.
Shade
When you add black to a color, it becomes darker and richer, creating a shade. Shades can be strong and may dominate.
Tint
A tint is made by mixing white with a color to make it lighter. It softens the color and can help balance bright color combinations.
Tones
A tone is made by mixing black, white, or gray with a color. It's like making a softer version of that color. Tones aren't as bright as tints and can show different details in the original color.
Hue, Saturation and Luminance
Shade
Saturation means how bright and strong a color looks.
Luminance
is how bright or light a color looks.
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