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Color Harmony Guide: Basics and Color Combining Tips

Learn the basics of color theory, including primary, secondary, and intermediary colors. Discover how to create harmonious color combinations using monochrome, complimentary, split-complimentary, triadic, and analogous color schemes. Find out how to choose colors that look good together.

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Color Harmony Guide: Basics and Color Combining Tips

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  1. How do I know which colors to use?

  2. Let’s start with the Basics… What are the Primaries?

  3. the Primaries are… Red… Rojo

  4. Yellow…amarillo

  5. And …Blue

  6. the secondaries are…

  7. Green…verdi

  8. Orange ananaranjo

  9. violet violeta

  10. The intermediaries are…

  11. Red-violet… rojo - violeta Red-orange Rojo-anaranjo

  12. Blue green Blue violet

  13. Yellow orange amarillo anaranjo Yellow green amarillo verdi

  14. Now… how do I know which colors look good together? Chose one of the five harmony groups

  15. What are the 5 harmony groups? they are….

  16. 1.monochrome

  17. This is also monochrome…. monochrome

  18. and this…. monochrome

  19. monochrome Definition: One color with different shades and tints To tint a color you add white … to shade a color you add black

  20. 2.complimentary And this is complimentary

  21. …And this is complimentary

  22. Definition: two colors that are opposite from each other on the color wheel

  23. 3.Split-complimentary Definition: One color plus the two colors on either side of its opposite

  24. Blue is the base colorRO and yo are the split-opposites

  25. This is also an example ofasplit-complimentaryharmony

  26. 4. Triadicdefinition: 3 equally spaced colors

  27. This is a triad also…greenorange andviolet

  28. 5. AnalogousDefinition: 2 or more colorsbetween primaries, exceptboth primaries

  29. blue blue-violetvioletred-violet

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