COLOR USAGE
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Table of Contents Color Wheel 10 Color Relationship 12 Analogous Colors 20 Achromatic Colors 24 Chromatic Colors 28
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Color Wheel 1 S2 T3
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Cool Color Area
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Warm Color Area
P1 - Primary - RED P2 - Primary - BLUE P3 - Primary - YELLOW S1 - Secondary - PURPLE (Red + Blue) S2 - Secondary - GREEN (Blue + Yellow) S3 - Seondary - ORANGE (Yellow + Red) T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6
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Tertiary Tertiary Tertiary Tertiary Tertiary Tertiary
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PLUM (Red + Purple) SKY BLUE (Purple + Blue) AQUA (Blue + Green) LIME (Green + Yellow) PEACH (Yellow + Orange) ORANGE RED (Orange + Red)
1 - Hue Circle - More saturated 2 - Tinted Circle - Less saturated 3 - More Tinted Circle - Least saturated 11
COLOR
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Primary
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Secondary
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RED BLUE YELLOW
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PRIMARY SECONDARY
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ORANGE GREEN PURPLE 17
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Analgous colors are located next to each other on the color wheel
Monochrome Analgous colors are located next to each other and made up of close values of the same hue
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Liubov Popova Sitzender weikblicher Akt, 1914 Oil on canvas Museum Ludwig 23
ACHROMATIC
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Achromatic colors are neutral colors such as black, white and grays
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Franz Kline Painting Number 2, 1954 Oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York
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C H O M CHROM A T I C
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Chromatic colors are hues such as reds, yellows and violets
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Paul Gauguin Miraculous Source, 1894 Oil on canvas Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
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GRAPHIC DESIGN CODE COLOR USAGE
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