[Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheel

[David Evans]

Dear All,

You can make your own Braille color wheel if you want to.  You 
can cut out a circle from cardboard and put a thumb tac in the 
middle and then glue some Brailled names of colors on it.  You 
just need to get them in the right places on the wheel.
There are basically 5 major colors:  White and Black, which can 
be added to other major colors to lighten or darken them.  Put 
together, they make the color grey and shades there of.
The primary colors are Red, Blue and Yellow.
If you combine red and yellow you get Orange.
If you combine Yellow and Blue, you get the color Green.  Combine 
Blue and Red and you get Purple.
If you add a little more of one color or the other, you get 
different shades of that color, such as Blue-Green, 
Green-Blue,red-orange, orange-red, yellow-green, blue-violet and 
so on.

Colors directly across the color wheel from each other, are 
called complimentary colors.  A good example of this are the 
colors Red and Green, the Xmas colors.
This is what the color wheel does.  It helps you pick out colors 
that go with each other.
This is why you should also stick with the same brightness or 
shades of colors you pick out to use.
Light shades go with light shades and dark shades with dark ones.
This rule is not hard and fast, but in general it holds true.

There are also Turciary color combinations also that fall at 
equal spacing around the color wheel from each other, such as the 
primary colors do; Red,Yellow and Blue, or Orange, Purple and 
Green.
If you are very blind, you should get someone, who you respect to 
help you or buy a good color identifier to help you.
The color wheel is a tool for helping you to pick out colors even 
if you can not see them, but it is not fool-proof.
This could be a good little item for Blind people to have to use 
in picking our color combinations for such things as clothing, 
painting rooms and other things when they do not have a sense of 
what colors look like.

I hope this helps.

David Evans
 someone to make and sell as a fund raiser for the didivisionb.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Nancy Yeager" <nancyyeager542 at comcast.net
>To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" 
<nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:33:20 -0400
>Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheel

>Does anyone know where I can find a Braille or otherwise 
accessible color
>wheel?  I have found some useful instructions on the net for 
using one and
>think it might help with choosing colors for beading and other 
crafts.

>Thanks.

>Nancy Yeager






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