Analogous Colors and Color Wheel

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Colours signify Life. Areas on the earth that nature with life, ocean, river, forest, mountain, and jungles represent the natural colours that delight to our mind and eyes. Colour relationships are more easily and visualize and memorized when arranging in the circle. Therefore, I choose Analogous colours and the colour wheel to explain in this article.

Colour wheel

The colour wheel is called all the colours are arranged in colour spectrum order. It is a colour circle of tool for combining colours. The first circular colour diagram was designed by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666. The design of a colour wheel is so virtual that you will pick any colour from it will look good together. There has a number of colour combinations and those are called harmony in colour, and they consist of two or more colours with a fixed relation in the colour wheel.

(figure 1) colour wheel

In the traditional colour wheel that has been three primary colours( red, blue, yellow), three secondary colours( green, violet, orange) and six tertiary colours. Tertiary means kind of like intermediate or in between it’s a combination of both primary and secondary colours. As an example between red and violet are red-violet. Secondary colours are a mix of two primary colours. Yellow and Red give Orange Colour and Blue and Red mixing given violet colour and Yellow and Blue mixing given Green. (figure 1).

Therefore, colours can be separated into two categories. Those are cool side and a warm sides (figure 2). Cool colours remind us of water and grass, And warm colours remind us of fire and sun. Warm colours can make angry, bright happy and excitement. Cool colours can make soothing, relaxing, calming and harmony.

(figure 2)

Analogous Colours

Analogous colour palettes create designs that are incredibly harmonious and easy to look. Colour wheel and Analogous colours are like next doors on the colour wheel.