![]() ![]() In the center are the primary colors – Red, Yellow, and Blue. This is the humble color wheel – you can find them much larger but for our purposes, this is an adequate size wheel to have our conversation. Adding darker pigments to a primary color like blue or a secondary color like green is another way to add the feel of a color without adding the weight of a color. Brown, tan and their derivatives are called near-neutrals. ![]() Value is a description of how light or dark a color isīlack, gray and white are true neutrals. Individual colors are described as having hue, value, chroma, shade, tone and tint. Before we get to that though, it’ll help to define some terms. Moving on, color theory is only as complicated as you let it be – there are rules and if you choose to follow them, your odds of putting together a working color scheme improve dramatically. ![]() You can hate on me in the comment section if you like but I will take the high road and ignore any names that get thrown my way – unless they rhyme with “you are right” and they’re spelled the exact same way. Now, I know that is a low blow and a cheap shot – but shoot me, I still think it’s true. This may sound incredibly mean but there are times when I think if it weren’t for most homeowners debilitating fear of choosing paint color, half of the interior decorators out there would run out of work. For some reason, choosing a color scheme for a project cripples even the most vocal of clients. One item that I can almost always guarantee that will be brought up in design meetings is paint and material color. ![]()
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