Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Colour Harmony

This is when two or more colours makes sense when putting together. This means that when you see them you will notice that they sort of clash together.

There are different types of colour harmonies:

Monochromatic: is the different values of a colour (tints, shades).

Monochromatic


Analogous: three or more colours that are found side by side on a colour wheel.

Analogous


Complementary (Direct Complementary): those colours which are opposite to each other on a colour wheel.

Complementary


Split-complementary: a colour together with those colours which are on both sides of its complementary.

Split-Complementry


Double complement: two sets of complementary colours next to each other.

Double Complement


Tetrad: up to four colours that have an equal distance from each other.

Tetrad


Diad: two colours that skips the colour between them on a colour wheel.

Diad



Triad: three colours which have the same space between them on a colour wheel.

Triad

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