COLOR WHEEL

COLOR
VALUES

TINT & SHADE

NEUTRALS

An achromatic color scheme is
simply colorless scheme possessing
no hue, using only black, white and
gray. A variation of this is possible,
making a warm or
cool achromatic by adding a hint of
red, yellow or blue to the neutrals.
ACHROMATIC COLOR SCHEMES

COLOR SCHEMES

TRIAD COLOR SCHEME

Monochromatic
color schemes
are derived from
a single base
hue and
extended using
its shades, tones
and tints.
MONOCHROMATIC

Complementary is a color
scheme using one
base color and its complement
which is the color on the exact
opposite side of
the color wheel.
COMPLEMENTARY

COMPLEMENTARY

Split-complementary color
scheme uses one color plus
the two colors adjacent to its
complementary color.
SPLIT-COMPLEMENTARY

SPLIT-
COMPLEMENTARY

Double complementary color
scheme uses 4 colors made up
of 2 complementary color
pairs. It is also called
TETRADIC or SQUARE
COLOR SCHEME.
DOUBLE COMPLEMENTARY

DOUBLE
COMPLEMENTARY

Analogous color scheme is
made up of 3 to 5 colors that
are adjacent to each other on
the color wheel.
ANALOGOUS

ANALOGOUS

A triad color scheme consists
of three chosen colors that are
equidistant, or equally spaced,
on the 12-point color wheel.
TRIAD

TRIAD