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

[slery]

I have a degree in photography and thus have taken a lot of color theory,
and Cathy F. you are doing an excellent job.

Cindy S.

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> colors
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> 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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