[Nfb-krafters-korner] Explaining Colors

[Lisamaria Martinez, NOMC]

Pretty much. 

As far as I can tell, according to my research, turquoise and aqua marine fall between the colors green and blue on the color wheel. The closest color on the color wheel it comes to is Blue-green/teal. 

Turquoise can come in different hues ranging from lighter turquoise to darker turquoise. It is considered a tertiary color because it is a mix of a primary color and a secondary color. To create turquoise you need to mix blue and yellow which are primary colors together to make green. Green is the secondary color. Add a little blue to green and you've got turquoise.

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> On Nov 21, 2014, at 8:59 PM, "Lauren Merryfield" <lauren at catlines.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
> Shades of blue-green can also be turquoise and aqua.
> Thanks
> Laurenwhose favorite color is in that part of the spectrum
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> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Explaining Colors
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> Hello again,
> 
> I'm going to attempt to describe the color wheel using a clockface.
> I've attached 2 versions of the color wheel too for anyone who wants them. I chose the wheel that starts with red at the 12 o'clock position and goes in a counterclockwise manner. My brain just works that way.
> 
> Color Wheel description
> 
> There are 12 colors on the basic color wheel and I'm going to assign numbers to each color and then use those numbers to explain how to match colors. Some of this might be made clear to you now if you read my early post and Cathy F's earlier post. Or, you might be more confused after this email.
> 
> 12: Red
> 1:   Red-orange
> 2:   Orange
> 3:   Yellow-orange
> 4.   Yellow
> 5:   Yellow-green
> 6:   Green
> 7:   Blue-green
> 8:   Blue
> 9:   Blue-purple
> 10: Purple
> 11: Red-purple
> 
> Some Important Definitions and Basic Concepts
> 
> Primary Colors: These colors are the three colors that can not be created by mixing other colors. The colors are red, blue and yellow.
> Primary colors can be combined to make secondary colors.
> 
> Secondary colors: These colors consist of two primary colors mixed together. The three colors secondary colors are purple (also known as violet), green and orange.
> 
> • red + blue = purple
> • red + yellow = orange
> • yellow + blue = green
> 
> Tertiary Colors: These colors are made by mixing a primary color with an adjacent secondary color. When naming tertiary colors the primary and secondary color names are joined by a dash with the primary always being the first color.
> 
> • red + orange = red-orange or vermilion • yellow + orange = yellow-orange or amber • yellow + green = yellow-green or chartreuse • blue + green = blue-green or teal • blue + purple = blue-purple or violet • red + purple = red-purple or magenta
> 
> Getting A Little More Complicated
> 
> Another group of tertiary colors can be created by mixing secondary colors. These are referred to as the quaternary colors. The names for the twelve quaternary colors are more variable, if they exist at all, though indigo and scarlet are standard for blue–violet and red–vermilion.
> 
> I think this means that indigo is a mix of blue plus blue-purple (technically blue plus violet) and that scarlet is a mix of red plus red-orange (technically red plus vermilion).
> 
> From the mix of the previous colors we get quinary colors, which are, roughly, varying shades of gray. There are no specific names beyond the tertiary colors. The more you mix the colors the harder it is for the human eye to detect those differences.
> 
> Back to Basic Vocabulary
> 
> Warm colors: These colors are vibrant and liven up a space. They are numbers 12 through 5 or red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow and yellow-green.
> 
> Cool colors: These colors tend to give a feeling of calm and they are numbers 6 through 11 or green, blue-green, blue, blue-purple, purple and red-purple.
> 
> Neutral colors: White, black and gray are considered to be neutral colors.
> 
> Tint: Adding white to a color makes it lighter. This is known as a tint. As Cathy F mentioned in an earlier post, tints can be referred to as pastels. You can take all 12 basic colors on the color wheel and make tints from them creating 12 new colors. These colors are usually associated with advertising geared toward women and babies.
> 
> Shade: Adding black, darkens a color and this is known as a shade. You can take all 12 basic colors on the color wheel and make shades from them creating 12 new colors. These colors are associated with advertising geared toward men.
> 
> Tone: Adding gray to a color changes the tone. A Tone is created by adding both White and Black which is grey. Any color that is "greyed down" is considered a Tone. Tones are somehow more pleasing to the eye. They are more complex, subtle and sophisticated. You can make 12 new colors by adding gray to the basic color wheel.
> 
> The words tint, shade and tone are often used incorrectly. And, a hue is a color and the words may be used interchangeably.
> 
> How to Match Colors
> 
> Now for some basic techniques to combine colors. This is where it can get complicated. However, if you simply remember that the points of a straight line, square, a rectangle, an equilateral triangle or an isosceles triangle placed on the color wheel will touch matching colors, then you will be fine.
> 
> Complementary: This simply means that opposite colors match. for instance red (12) and green (6) match or orange (2) and blue (8) match.
> 
> Analogous: this matching is pretty simple. Take 3 colors in a row on the color wheel and they match. So, red-purple (11), red (12), and red-orange (1) all match.
> 
> Triadic: Take an equilateral triangle and plop it down on a color wheel or take 3 points that are all equally the same distance from each other. These 3 colors match. example: red (12), yellow (4) and blue (8) all match. Note that these happen to be primary colors.
> 
> Split-Complementary: This is where your geometry kicks in. Remember what an isosceles triangle is? It is a triangle with 2 sides the same length. an easier way to remember this as it pertains to the color wheel is that you take a color like green (6), find its complimentary color, red (12), and then pick the colors on either side of that complimentary color. In this case, red-purple (11) and red-orange (1).
> All of these colors, or any combo of these color will match.
> 
> Rectangle (tetradic): This color combination uses four colors arranged into two complementary pairs that match. For example: red (12), orange (2), green (6) and blue (8) all match. red and green are complimentary of each other and orange and blue are complimentary of each other.
> 
> Tetradic color schemes works best if you let one color be dominant.
> You should also pay attention to the balance between warm and cool colors in your design.
> 
> I painted my son's bedroom blue, orange and green. blue and green are cool colors, but orange is a compliment of blue and a warm color. It makes for a very awesome contrast in my opinion. One might think that orange is the dominant color here especially since it is on one of the two longer walls. I chose blue as the dominant color because a lot of Erik's bedding is differing hues? of blue and the bed is against the blue wall.
> 
> Square: finally, the last basic theory for matching colors that you ever wanted to know. The square color scheme is similar to the rectangle, but with all four colors spaced evenly around the color circle like the equilateral triangle or triadic theory of matching.
> Square color schemes works best if you let one color be dominant. You should also pay attention to the balance between warm and cool colors in your design.
> 
> An example of four evenly spaced colors are 12, 3 6 and 9 or red, yellow-orange, green and blue-purple.
>