[Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheel

[Annette Carr]

I am guessing that using a combination of a color wheel and a color
identifier would be an incredible tool.  I've always wanted a color
identifier, but never thought of pairing it with a color wheel.

Just my 2 cents.
Annette
 

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David Evans
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 1980 6:56 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Color Wheel



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