Color Categories on the Color Wheel theory

Color Categories on the Color Wheel

"Color wheels groups colors in ways that can be the start of a palette.
A color wheel arranges colors around the edges of a circle and each color has a relationship to each other. The relationships are actually based on the physics of light waves, but a visual round is much easier to utilize!
Colors can be placed into categories such as harmonizing, split-complementary, harmony, analogous and temperature to describe how two or three colors relate to each other on the color wheel."

Analogous colors are those neighboring to each other on the wheel. These colors share enough general attributes that they can work well with each other ... although they give little contrast.




Complementary colors differing each other provide high color contrast. If you watch at a color then look away at a blank wall, you'll see an afterimage in the color's complementary color.






Split-Complementary colors are those on either side of the harmonizing color. They contrast, but not as strongly as complementary colors.





Triad colors central provide a balanced color scheme and can be a good place to create exploring palettes.





Color Wheels Theory
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Color wheels are a way to arrange colors, creation it easier to select a palette that works.
A color wheel arranges colors about the edges of a round. Primary colors are in the middle. Three common color wheels are the artist's wheel, the subtractive wheel, and the additive wheel.
Color wheels are helpful in the discussion and selection of colors using any color model.

A standard color wheel has 12 distinct hues, but does not have any visual information about saturation or value. These 12 hues can be classified in three categories, primary, secondary, and tertiary.

Primary colors are the important colors of the wheel. In the color wheels under, they appear in the center as well as equally spaced around the circle. On the traditional artist's color wheel red, blue, and yellow are chief colors.

Secondary colors are the three colors that are alike distant from the primary colors. On the customary artist's color wheel violet, green, and orange are minor colors.

Tertiary colors are the colors between each primary and secondary color. On the usual artist's color wheel red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green, yellow-orange, and red-orange are tertiary colors.

The artist's color wheel. This color wheel uses red, yellow, and blue as primary colors. This is used for mixing paints.

The subtractive color wheel. This color wheel uses the printing inks cyan, magenta, and yellow as primary colors. Note: Because cyan, magenta, and yellow inks do not combine to make black, the printing process adds black as a fourth ink.

Additive Color. This color wheel displays the additive colors used for projected light. When mixed together the additive primaries form white. The primaries are red, green and blue. These colors are extremely bright because light that is projected can be far more intense than printed color.