How to choose the right color?
What is Color theory?
Practical guidance to create or choose the right colors for your needs.
Yes, there are set of rule to create or choose colors and we will discover these rules in this article.
What is color?
To answer what is color, we will have to understand the components of it
- Hue: Name of the color is called hue.
- Saturation: Intensity of the hue is called saturation
- Value: Degree of lightness or darkness of the color
- Shade: Hue produced by adding black
- Tint: Hue produced by adding white
- Tone: Hue produced by adding grey
Types of colors
Color wheel is very useful in understanding the colors.
- Primary colors: are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors. The primary colors are those which cannot be created by mixing other colors in a given color space
- RYB system of red, yellow, blue, especially used by artists.
- RGB system of red, green, blue in television and computer screens.
- Secondary colors: are generated by combining two adjacent primary colors in color wheel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LLXnUdUIc
- Tertiary colors: are generated by combining two adjacent secondary colors in color wheel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LLXnUdUIc
Now we know What is color and how to generate a new one, let’s look at the color schemas.
What is the Color scheme?
According to Wikipedia, In color theory, a color scheme is the choice of colors used in the design for a range of media are used to create style and appeal. Colors that create an aesthetic feeling when used together will commonly accompany each other in color schemes.
Types of Color scheme
- Monochromatic: are all the colors (tints, tones, and shades) of a single hue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LLXnUdUIc
- Complementary: are the colors on the wheel which are opposite to each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LLXnUdUIc
- Slipt Complementary: colors creates the tringle using colors just by the side of complementary color.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LLXnUdUIc
- Analogous: are the colors on the wheel which by the side of each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LLXnUdUIc
- Triadic: are the colors on the wheel which creates the perfect triangle. This scheme is can create crazy vibrant color some times. be careful while using
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LLXnUdUIc
- Tetradic: are the colors on the wheel which creates the rectangle. Key to use this scheme is to dominate one color while others compliment it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LLXnUdUIc
Each color represents something
- Red: Passion, Danger, Fire, Heat
- Orange: Energy, Creativity
- Yellow: Happyness, Joyfulness, Being acttive. Mostly used in advertising
- Black: Death, Power
- Green: Nature, Healing. Mostly health care
- Blue: Calming, Wisdom
- Purple: Wealth, Ambition. In anicent times purple is hard to and this used own by mostly quens and kings
- White: Peace, Purity
Notes:
This tool is very useful in creating the color schemes https://paletton.com/#uid=c0X3L1q4e0kllllaFw0g0qFqFg0w0aF
I hope this information is enough to choose the right color for your need. Thank you for reading. share this if find this usefull.