Handouts

2. Basic Colors Theory
Color Wheel
primary colors - red, blue, and yellow
secondary colors - violet, orange, and green

3. Color consists of three main integral parts:
1. Hue - refers to a color having full saturation
2. Saturation - defines the brilliance and intensity of a color
3. Value - refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.

4. •Shade (darkness)
•Tint (lightness)
•Tone (richness)

6. Creating color schemes
Color Formula/Color Harmony
Monochromatic - uses one color or hue

8. Analogous - uses colors that are next to each other on the
wheel.

10. Complementary - are opposite each other on the wheel.

12. Split-complementary - uses the colors on either side of the
complement.

14. Triadic - uses three colors that are evenly spaced, forming a
perfect triangle on the wheel.

16. Tetradic - form a rectangle on the wheel, using not one but two
complementary color pairs.