Color is one of the most basic tools to communicate thoughts, feelings, and emotions. So, I’ll be exploring more about colours and colour theory.

Color wheel describes the relationships between colors. It shows primary, secondary, complementary and intermediate colors. 

The colour wheel is a basic but completely essential tool for combining colours.

Primary colours – red, yellow and blue

Secondary colours – mixing the primary colours

Warm colours – red, orange, yellow (vibrant and energetic)

Cool colours – green, blue and violet  (calm and tranquility)

Colour has three properties: hue, value and intensity (saturation)

And three basic colour concepts: tints, shades and tones

Now, moving on to the colour harmonies! 

 Complementary – colors opposite each other on the color wheel

Analogous – colours lie next to each other on the colour wheel

Triad – colours are those that are evenly spaced out around the colour wheel

Split-Complementary – a base colour, then uses the two adjacent colours as its complement. 

Last but not least, CMYK & RGB. 

CMYK is subtractive – add more colours it eventually turns black.

(cyan, magenta, yellow and black) For printing.

RGB is a additive, projected light color system.

(red, green, blue) For web design.

Images used

Moreno, C. (2017). A brief, animated lesson on color theory. Retrieved from https://www.freepik.com/blog/brief-animated-lesson-color-theory/

Cowan, K. (2017). Essential Colour Guide for Designers: Understanding Colour Theory. Retrieved from https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/essential-colour-guide-for-designers-understanding-colour-theory/

K, J. (2017). COLOR THEORY PART 2: EXPLORING HUE, VALUE, TINT, SHADE AND TONE. Retrieved from http://blog.knitpicks.com/color-theory-part-2-exploring-hue-value-tint-shade-tone/