[stylist] Fwd: color wheel help

[EvaMarie Sanchez]

Barbara, It is a wheel. There does not need to necessarily be a specific
color always on top or in another position. The thing to know is the
complimentaries and so on, like you described. One could think of a pizza
with its slices representing the colors as they are layed out. The points
will come together and the one that is directly opposite another is its'
compliment.
The primary colors are Red, yellow and blue. The secondary colors are
green, purple and orange. Those are in respective order of their
compliments: red and green, yellow and purple, blue and orange.
>From there you have the rest: red orange, yellow orange, yellow green, blue
green,  magenta and violet.
There are other names for colors and many other colors as well. Depending
on where you are from and how you perceive the colors' artists vs. typical
man, there might not always be agreement. One person with say blue green,
another will say teal and yet another will say aquamarine. They could all
be looking at the same color. I am sure that someone like Lynda, and
myself, will disagree, but that is my point.
We see what we see and we call 'em as we see 'em.
Hope this helps.
Eve

 President, National Federation of the Blind Northern Arizona
President, National Federation of the Blind Writers' Division
Member, Slate & Style Editing Team
Editor, Tapestry, a TAWN publication
"You do not need to have vision to see the stars."

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Barbara HAMMEL via stylist <
stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:

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> > From: Barbara Hammel <poetlori8 at icloud.com>
> > Date: October 21, 2015 at 14:06:03 CDT
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> > Subject: color wheel help
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> > Trivia Crack is baffling my totally blind friends with all its color
> questions. Could anyone give me a description of the color wheel like what
> color is on top, say at 12:00, and how many colors do they usually have. A
> friend of mine described one she saw that had yellow at the top and 12
> colors. I know what the primary colors are and what secondary and tertiary
> colors are — I've had to explain those to my sighted husband — but
> sometimes Trivia Crack asks what colors are opposite each other on the
> color wheel or which colors are complements of a certain color. I want to
> write a poem or something to help those who have never seen color and just
> know them as baffling words to help them in the Arts category.
> > The famous artists and their famous works and what style their paintings
> are is another project. (They can learn the composers on their own like I
> have to.)
> > Barbara
> > Sent from my iPhone
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