[Nfb-krafters-korner] color wheel and some info about colors

Lisamaria Martinez lmartinez217 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 19:46:03 UTC 2014


Cathy,

You are correct that orange is a mix of red and yellow, green is a mix
of yellow and blue, and that vilet/purple is a mix of red and blue. I
noticed question marks after those. I'm a techy nerd with colors and
will be sharing some of my knowledge in another post shortly.

LM

On 11/21/14, Cathy via Nfb-krafters-korner
<nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Color wheel
> Hi all,
>
> I did research on colors a few years ago wishing to understand which colors
> would go with which other colors.
> I am going to be writing colors next to one another on a line or in a list,
> but attempt to picture them as triangles that meet in the center to form a
> wheel. This is what a color well looks like.
>
>
> Primary colors are a pure color and there are only three of them: red,
> yellow and blue.
>
> Then there are secondary colors and these are equal parts of two of the
> primary colors mixed together.  There ARE ONLY THREE OF THOSE AS WELL. They
> include
> Orange: which is a combination of red and yellow?
> Green: which is a combination of yellow and blue?
> Violet: which is a combination of red and blue?
>
> Then there are tertiary colors which are combinations of one primary and
> one
> secondary color which are adjacent to one another.  There are seven of
> these. They include:
> Red/orange, yellow/orange, yellow/green, blue/green, blue/violet,
> red/violet.
>
> Then there are quartic colors and these are combinations of two adjacent
> tertiary colors.as you will notice, they have ½ one color and ¼ of two
> other
> colors. There are five of these. They include:
> Cinnamon which is red/orange and yellow/orange
> Citron which is yellow/orange and yellow/green
> Olive which is yellow/green and blue/green
> Forest which is blue/green and blue/violet
> Eggplant which is blue/violet and red/violet so picture these colors in a
> wheel instead of a line, there is the primary color wheel, the secondary
> color wheel, the tertiary color wheel and the quartic color wheel. One
> color
> is next to another and they eventually meet. Of course you can make one
> huge
> wheel including all of these colors.
> So colors match if they are next to one another on the wheel, but they also
> match if they are opposite to one another. For example, if we had a wheel
> of
> only the primary and secondary colors it would consist of six colors
> including:
> Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.
> The red would be opposite to the green,
>  The orange would be opposite to the blue
> The yellow would be opposite to the violet.
>
> However it is more complicated than that. White is often added to any of
> these colors to make the shade lighter. If a good amount of white is added
> the color is considered to be a pastel shade. A pastel of a color would not
> go well with a non-pastel color in most cases even when the colors are
> matching in other aspects. .
>
> Some pastel shades include:
> Pink, which is pastel red,
> Peach which is pastel orange,
> Pastel yellow doesn’t have a special name,
> Mint green pastel green,
> Baby blue is Pastel blue .
> Lavender is pastel purple.
>
> Brown or gray can also be added to a color to darken it.
>
> Colors are also considered either warm or cool
> Warm colors include yellow, orange, and Red.
> Cool colors include green, blue and violet.
> So a brown color may have a hint of red or orange so that is a warm brown.
> A gray might have a hint of blue so it is a cool gray.
>
> There is so much more about this I have learned and could explain, but this
> will get you started I hope.
>
> Cathy F
>
>
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