Complementary colors

Colors on the opposite side of the color wheel. Using them in conjunction with one another gives high contrast

Monochromatic

Three tones, shades, or tints of the same color to provide subtle variation but provides consistency.

Analogous

Three colors side by side on the color wheel. It is best to choose one to be the dominant color and the other 2 to be the accent colors.

Triadic

Three evenly spaced colors on the color wheel. Provides contrast, less so than the Complementary color scheme but it makes the color scheme more versatile.

Tetradic

Like Triadic, but this time it is 4 evenly spaced colors instead of 3. Best to make one dominant color and use the others for accent, as with analogous, because to many colors can be difficult to manage.

Primary, secondary and tertiary colors

Traditionally your Primary colors are red, yellow, and blue, as the can’t be made from other colors, but for the RGB wheel it is red, green, and blue because those are the colors that when added together create pure white light. Secondary colors refer to the colors you get when you mix two primary colors in equal amounts (e.x. in the traditional red and blue making purple.). Tertiary colors are colors that are the result of mixing a primary with a secondary.

Warm colors

Warm colors are reds to yellows, while cool colors are your blues to purples.

Shades, tints and tones

Shade is created by adding black to the base color. Tint is done by adding white to the base color. Tones are adding both black and white to the base color

Hue, saturation and luminance

Hue is the color itself. Saturation is the intensity of the color Luminance is the amount of brightness of the color

My Favorite Color

My favorite color is (HEX: #0088CE). It is the official color of the Carolina Panthers. The complementary color is #CE4600. A couple of monochromatic colors would be #02A9FF and #004166. Analogous would be #0021CE and #00CEAD. Triadic colors would be #CE0088 and #88CE00.