With colours you can set a mood, attract attention, or

make a statement. You can use colour to energize, or to

cool down. By selecting the right colour scheme, you
can create an ambiance of elegance, warmth or
tranquillity, or you can convey an image of playful
youthfulness. Colour can be your most powerful design
element if you learn to use it effectively.
 What is color ?

• Color is the visual by – product of the spectrum of light as

it is either transmitted through a transparent medium, or
as it is absorbed and reflected of a surface. Color is the
light wavelengths that the human eye receives and
processes from a reflected source.
• A tool for understanding color relationship
and creating harmonious color schemes.
• The color wheel is divided into three
categories
• Primary
• Secondary
• Tertiary
Primary colours

•  Primary colours are

those that cannot be
created by mixing
other colours
together.
• RED
• BLUE
• YELLOW
Secondary colours
•  Secondary colours 
are those that are
created by mixing two
primary colours.
• ORANGE
• GREEN
• VIOLET
Tertiary colors

• Tertiary colors are those that ate created by

mixing a primary and secondary color together
 Neutral colors
• The neutral colors contain equal parts of each
of the primary colors.
• Black &White (Off black, white, off white and
gray)

• Neutral color gradation

Warm & Cool colors
Warm & colors
• Warm colors range from red
to yellow
• Warm colors are active,
attention – grabbing and
aggressive .
• They stimulate emotions,
motivate and seem to come
forward off the screen or
page.
• Warm colors make objects
look closer.
 Cool colors

• Cool color range from blue to violet, the half of the color wheel with
shorter wavelengths.
• Have a calming effects.
• Frequently used for background to set off smaller areas of warm colors.
• Used together, cool colors can look clean and crisp, implying status and
calm.
• Bright cool colors generates more excitements then light, medium or dark
cool colors.
Complementary colors
• Complementary color scheme colors that are
opposite each other on the color wheel are
considered to be complementary colors
Triadic color scheme

• A triadic color scheme

used color that are
evenly spaced around
the color wheel
Rectangle color scheme
• The rectangle
color scheme
uses four colors
arranged into
two
complementary
pairs
Square color scheme
• The square
color scheme is
similar to the
rectangle, but
with four
colors spaced
evenly around
the color circle.
 Analogous colors

• Analogous color
scheme use
colors that are
next to each
other on the
color wheel
Split complement
• The split –
complement colors
scheme is variation
of the
complementary color
scheme.
• In addition to the
base color, it uses the
two colors adjacent
to its complement
Monochrome colors
• A monochrome color scheme
uses only one Hue (color) and
all values (shades or tints ) of
it for a unifying and
harmonious effect.
• You can change the value of a
color by adding black (shade),
or white (tint), or gray (tone)
• As white is added to a colour it
become Higher in value lighter
• As black is added it becomes
Lower in value darker
 Tint, Shade, & Tone
• Value : color values are the light and dark of a color create by
using black and white (neutrals) with a color
• This makes hundreds of more color from the basic 12 colors or
set

White + color = Tint

Black + color = Shade
Hue + white + black = Tone
Hue

• Hue is just another word of color

• And it generally refers to a specific slice of the color wheel
• The blue slice, the orange slice, the yellow- green slice,
and so on
Value

• Value is the lightness or darkness of a color

compared of a scale of grays that goes from
near white to near black
Different types of color wheels
 World favorite color

• Marrs Green
 Assessments
1. Make a color wheel
2. Composition with primary colors
3. Composition with monochrome colors
4. Composition with complementary colors
5. Composition with analogous colors
6. Composition with tint with warm color
7. Composition with shades with cool colors
Assessment 1,2,3, Sheet Arrangement

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Assessment 4,5,6,7. Sheet Arrangement

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