Art of Digital Design: Color Theory, Theory of Color Wheel

The way to get a perfect design is to match your color, you need to have a sense to match a perfect colors in your design and the way to do that is to know first what is colors, colors, primary colors, secondary colors tertiary colors, colors values and relationship. In this topic we will know all about colors, believe me after reading this topic, in your next design you will have a perfect colors match .

A color is never seen alone, but always in a mixture with other colors. Like a music notes, no color seen alone, no color is good or not Rather, it's a part of a beautiful composition that as a whole is pleasing or not. The color wheel theory helps to understand how colors relate to one another. HERE IS HOW IT WORKS.

--What are the colors ??
Our wheel has 12 basic hues. First are the primary colors of blue, yellow and red. Primary colors combine to make secondary colors, which combine to make tertiary colors.

Primary colors are the wheel's main colors, they are the only colors not created from other colors. The primary colors are positioned around the wheel in thirds.
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Secondary colors are halfway between the primary colors. Each of them made from equal amounts of the nearest two primary colors.
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Tertiary colors fill the remaining gaps in the rest of the places remaining in the wheel. They are made from equal amounts of the adjacent primary and secondary colors.
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--Color values
Colors also has lightness and darkness, or value . To know value, The colors wheel has more rings, two small wheel inside rings for the light tints and two big wheel out rings for darker shades.
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Note that Color wheel have five rings from dark outside to light inside, dark shades are the big rings, light tints are the small rings, and hues are in the middle ring of the colors wheel.

--As you noticed, every color is part of the color next to it, which is the part of the color next to it and so on, all the way around our colors wheel. Colors in common are the basis of color relationships.

Blue is common to all seven colors, which get less blue as they move out, Green and violet are the secondaries that contain blue.
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Yellow is common to all seven colors, which get less yellow as they move out. Green and orange are the secondaries that contain yellow.

Red is common to all seven colors, which get less redas they move out.Orange and violet secondaries that contain red.

--Finally Colors relationships:
There are six basic colors relationships, Each can yield an infinite number of color palettes:

Monochromatic "Monochromatic palette":
First are the dark, medium and light values of a single color. It has no color depth, but it provides the contrast of dark, medium and light colors that is so essentials for a perfect design.

Analogous "Analogous palette":
Adjacent colors are called analogous.Analogous colors share strong undertones, which create pleasing, low-contrast harmony. Analogous palettes are rich and always easy to work with.

Complement"Complement palette":
Direct opposites on the colors wheel are complement. What the complements bring is contrast. A color and its complement convey energy, vigor and excitement. Typically, the complement is used in a smaller amount as an assent...A spot of orange on a blue field for example.

Split Complement"Split Complement palette":
One step either way are the split complement 's own analogous colors. This colors are Split complement palette. Its strength is in the low-contrast beauty of analogous colors, Plus the added punctuation of an opposite color.

Primary "Primary palette":
The primary colors are rarely seen as a trio except in one case, Children paints. However, it popular in some cultures and logos of food chains , coffee chains logos in most countries like America for example .

Secondary "Secondary palette":
Secondary colors have a lot in common, two shares blue, two shares yellow and two shares red harmonically easily. As a trio they are soft, Inviting and rich, and have pleasing depth and dimension that are hard to get in other ways in common designs.

That's all about wheel theory.
So important for all designer, So easily understood.
That's all for today, Until next time have fun.