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Colour harmony

Lesson 14 of 27 in Colour.

COLOR THEORY BASICS: Use the Color Wheel & Color Harmonies to Choose Colors that Work Well Together · Sarah Renae Clark
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Harmony schemes are recipes for picking colours that will not fight. They are genuinely useful as a starting point and they are not laws, and a great deal of very good design ignores all of them.

complementaries sit oppositethe wheel is pigment convention, not physics
A twelve-step colour wheel with a complementary pair marked.
One card striped half red and half green with jittery marks, beside a mostly green card holding a single small red circle.
Red and green in equal stripes seem to buzz, while the same pair as a small red dot on a green field looks calm. How much of each you use matters most.
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    Which of these words means this? “Opposite on the wheel. Maximum contrast of hue.”

    • Rendering intent
    • Tone
    • Complementary
    • Subtractive
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Neighbours on the wheel. Quiet, and easy to make dull.”

    • LUT
    • Analogous
    • Duotone
    • Ground
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Three evenly spaced. Lively, and hard to balance.”

    • Triadic
    • Anchor
    • AA
    • Countershading

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