Color Schemes
By: Ella Rademaker
Complementary The definition of complementary is a colors complement on the other side of the color wheel. For example, the complement to yellow is purple. The colors can consist of any of the colors of the color but the colors can’t group with any other color in their color group.
Triatic Triatic uses any colors that are equal distance apart on the color wheel. Unlike complementary, triatic can use any three colors from one color group. Red, blue, and yellow are all primary colors and they can all be used at once with triatic.
Monochromatic Monochromatic differs from the first two color schemes because it uses one color from the color wheels and uses tints of that one color. So only one color can be used with this color scheme. For a room, there can only be one shade of green for example.
Nuetral The neutral color scheme isn’t bold, but uses very calm and neutral colors. The colors used are white, black, beige, and brown. Neutral won’t use any bold colors like a bright blue or purple.
Accented Nuetral Accented neutral is similar to nuetral but this color scheme has bold peices. The accented pieces could consist of a nuetral colored room and bright pillows for the accented part of the room. But only a small amount of accented pieces.
Analogous The analogous color scheme uses colors next to each other. You can start out with any of the three color families to start out with. I could pick yellow and thenn I’ll have to choose yellow green, green, and teal or if I choose a different color pattern I would use yellow orange, orange, and red orange.
Split Complementary Spil complementary uses three colors, but only from two of the color families. First pick a main color then use its two complement colors on either side. If I picked purple as my main color I’ll have to choose yellow orange and yellow green as my compliments.
Tetrad Tetrad uses and four logical hues on the color wheel. Four colors for example could be blue, red, orange, and green. When drawing a line to connect all of those colors creates a box.
Complementary Triad Complementary triad uses all three hues, primary, secondary, and tertiary. First choose a primary or secondary color then draw a straight line. For example, if the blue primary hue gets chosen, draw a straight line to the secondary hue orange. Then the tertiary color in between them, yellow green, will have a line drawn towards it and that’ll be the third hue
Analogous Complementary The analogous color scheme uses one main color, then its complements. For example, choose one primary color then its complements. If you chose blue you would use the color blue, teal, green, and yellow green.