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COLOR THEORY

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF DESIGN

 SIX HARMONIES
• Complementary colors.
• Split complementary colors.
• Analogous colors.
• Triadic harmonies.
• Tetradic harmonies.
• Monochromatic harmonies.
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Complementary Color Scheme –
• A complementary is a color’s opposite color
on the color wheel. For example, green's
complementary color is red.
 COMPLEMENTARY REFERENCE
• The high contrast of complementary
colors creates a vibrant look especially when
used at full saturation.
• This color scheme must be managed well so it
is not jarring.
• For example, blue and orange, or red and
green.
 COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS
• Modern color theory uses either the RGB
additive color model or the CMY
subtractive color model, and in these,
the complementary pairs are red–cyan,
green–magenta, and blue–yellow.
• In the traditional RYB color model,
the complementary color pairs are red–green,
yellow–violet, and blue–orange.
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Split Complementary Color Scheme –
• Split-complementary is a color scheme using one
base color and two secondary colors.
• Instead of using a complementary color,
two colors placed symmetrically around it on
the color wheel are used.
• The base color is main, while the
secondary colors should be used only for
highlights and accents
SPLIT COMPLEMENTARY
 SPLIT COMPLEMENTARY REFERENCE
• FOLLOWING ARE THE EXAMPLES OF SPLIT COMP
COLOUR SCHEME :
• Red, blue-green, and yellow-green.
• Blue, red-orange, and yellow-orange.
• Yellow, blue-purple, and red-purple.
• Purple, yellow-orange, and yellow-green.
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Triadic Color Scheme –
• A triadic color scheme are three colors evenly
spaced apart from each other on the wheel.
• Blue, red, and yellow are a triadic color scheme.
 TRIADIC REFERENCE
• A triadic color scheme is any color palette made
of three colors that are equally apart on
the color wheel.
For example, red, yellow and blue.
• Combinations of triadic –
• Red, yellow, and blue.
• Purple, green, and orange.
• Blue-purple, red-orange, and yellow-green
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Tetradic Colour Scheme –
• Also known as Square, this scheme uses four
colors evenly spaced on the color wheel.
 TETRIADIC COLOUR SCHEME
• A tetrad is a color scheme, a special variant of the
dual color scheme, with the equal distance
between all colors.
• All four colors are distributed evenly around the
color wheel, causing there is no clear dominance
of one color.
• Violet + Orange + Blue + Yellow
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