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

Mon Nov 24 13:10:06 UTC 2014

 Thanks a lot for this, Cathy!

Terry P.

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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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