Color theory explains how the colors are formed.It is explained by using Color Wheel.It explains how the colors are combined to form a third color.
There are two types of color wheel.
1) Artistic Color Wheel
2) Technical Color Wheel
In daily life people use a color combination in their dressing sense to look decent and attractive.Same way when a colorful design is created the combination of these color shoud be matching.For this purpose a color wheel guides how to combine the color with with each other to create an attractive output.
Basic color Theory – Color Wheel
1) Primary Colors –Red ,Blue, Yellow are primary colors.
RED BLUE YELLOW
2) Secondary Colors – Colors formed by mixing of two primary colors
RED + BLUE = VIOLET
RED + YELLOW = ORANGE
BLUE + YELLOW= GREEN
TERTIARY COLORS – Color formed by mixing one Primary and one Secondary color.
Color Schemes – It is a choice of colors used in design for a range of media.It is used to create style and appeal.
Some color schemes:
MONOCHROMATIC COLOR SCHEME :- It consist of different values of single color.
ANALOGOUS COLOR SCHEME :- Colors that are adjacent to each other on color wheel.Yellow and Red are adjacent to Orange.
NEUTRAL COLOR SCHEME :- Color scheme that includes only colors not found on color wheel,called NEUTRALS,such as brown and gray.
WARM COLOR SCHEME :- Warm color scheme contains colors like Red , Orange , Yellow color.These color can be related with fire,they are warm color.
COOL COLOR SCHEME :- This color scheme contains green violet and blue colors.
COMPLEMENTARY COLORS – Colors which are opposite to each other on the wheel are complementary colors Eg – Green and Red.
TECHNICAL COLOR WHEEL
Color wheel explains how colors are displayed on the monitors.
Just like artistic wheel this wheel also has Primary,Secondary,Tertiary colors , but it differs from other wheel.
Primary Colors –Red ,Blue, Yellow are primary colors.
RED BLUE GREEN
Secondary Colors –CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW
TERTIARY COLORS – Color formed by mixing one Primary and one Secondary color.
The digital display devices uses this color wheel to create different colors on the screen as well as the same wheel can be used in opposite way to print media.
An equilateral triangle has sides of same length and can be rotated around the interior of the circle to form traid of color.The primary triad of Red,Green and blue are the most basic, but there are plenty of others to choose from.
An isosceles triangle creats a great combo of harmony like yellow and violet in this example. One complement is used harmony, in this case yellow and two adjacent tertiary colors.
Sometimes you need color schemes with more than two or three colors. A rectangle gives you 4 colors, creates a harmonious relationship with four adjacent tertiary colors.
1) Shapes within the color wheel form three and four color harmonies.
2) Analogous color schemes are formed by three adjacent colors.
3) Analogous color scheme are often smooth and rich feeling.
4) Complementary pairs are opposites on the wheel.
5) Complementary colors have lot of contrast and pop.
6) Trying lots of combinations helps you choose the best result
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