Hue, Tint, Shade and Tone

The hue of a colour refers to a family of colours on the colour wheel.

The Tint of a colour is the amount of white added to make a colour lighter.
The Shade is the amount of black added to make a colour darker.
The Tone is when grey is added to make a colour softer.

Monochrome Colour

Monochrome is where only one colour is used or is used as a base colour.

This is useful for creating simple designs and is usually easy to use and understand.

Achromatic Colour

Achromatic colours aren’t colours at all and only use greyscale. An achromatic colour
scheme only uses black and white shades but is still an effective colour choice.

Analogous Colours

These are colours that are very similar to each other and usually adjacent in the colour
wheel. For example, red, orange and yellow.

Complementary Colours

These are colours that are opposite to each other on the colour wheel and look good when
put together. For example, red and blue.

Triadic Colours

A colour scheme where there are 3 evenly spaced colours on the wheel put together.
Orange, blue and green together is an example of this.

Split Complementary Colours

A colour scheme made using a base colour and two secondary colours. If blue was chosen
for example, the split complementary colours would be pink and orange.