basics
- primary: a real set of colorants; red, yellow, and blue
- secondary: mixing two primary colors; green, purple, orange
- tertiary: mixing primary and secondary colors
- hue: purest/brightest form
- tint: hue + white
- tone: hue + grey
- shade: hue + black
- color wheel
- complemetary: opposite (red/green)
- analogous: next to each other (blue/green)
- triadic: evenly space around (green/puple/orange)
- split-complementary: variation of complementary = in addition to base color, uses two colors adjacent to complement (green/fuchsia/orange)
- rectangle/tectradic: four colors into two complementary pairs (red/yellow/green/blue)
- square: similar to rectangle, but all colors spaced evenly (red/blue/green/yellow)
colors by shade
mar 29 2019 ∞
apr 4 2019 +