Color Wheel

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Color Wheel

• Original Power Point Created by Erica Ortmann
• Modified by Georgia Agricultural Education
  Curriculum Office
• June 2002

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Color Wheel

• A tool to use to understand the uses of color.

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Color Wheel

• Primary Color natural colors red, yellow,
  blue
• Secondary Colors equal mixture of two primary
  colors
• Red Yellow Orange
• Yellow Blue Green
• Red Blue Purple/Violet

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Color Wheel

• Tertiary color equal mixture of a primary and
  secondary color. Example red orange
  red-orange
• Value brightness or darkness of a color.
• Chroma Measure of brightness or dullness.

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Color Wheel

• Tint Add white to make a color brighter, pink
  is a tint of red

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Color Wheel

• Shade add black to make a color darker,
  burgundy is a shade of red.

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Color Wheel

• Tone add gray to make a color dull dusty rose
  is a tone of pink.
• Color Harmonies combinations of color that are
  pleasing to the eye.

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Color Principles

• Monochromatic one hue with its tints, shades
  and tones, ex. Red, pink, mauve, burgundy.
• Analogous three or more hues that are next to
  each other on the color wheel. Ex. Yellow
  green, yellow yellow orange.

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Color Principles

• Complementary two colors opposite each other on
  the color wheel. Ex. Red and green.
• Split-Complementary any color with the two
  colors on each side of its complement. Ex. Yellow
  with blue-violet and red-violet.

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Color Principles

• Triadic three colors that are equally spaced on
  the color wheel. Ex. Yellow, red and blue.
• Polychromatic three or more unrelated colors,
  select tints, shades tones.