All Designs
Traditional Colour Wheel
Consists of three Primary Colours (Red, Yellow, Blue), three Secondary Colours, six Tertiary Colours Centre of wheel separates warm colours from cool colours...
Tone
Represents adding a grey (both black and white) Makes a colour appear more subtle and less intense
Tint
Represents the adding of white to a colour Very light tints are sometimes called pastels
Tetradic Colours
See Split Complementary Colours
Tertiary Colours
Colours created when Secondary Colours are mixed
Symmetry
See also: Balance and Alignment
Split Complementary Colours
Like Complementary Colours but one of the colourpoints is split equally in two, and the third is opposing their centrepoint...
Shade
Represents the adding of black to a colour
Secondary Colours
The colours created when Primary Colours are mixed (e.g. Green (Yellow/Blue), Orange (Red/Yellow), Purple (Blue/Red))