Notes: learning color matching from scratch (1)

  Design principle 101-color theory

Primary colors

The source of all colors is called the primary color. The primary colors refer to red, yellow, and blue.

If we are talking about the display color of the screen, such as the display, the three primary colors are red, green, and blue, which are the RGB colors we are familiar.

 

Color

If red and yellow, yellow and blue, blue and red are evenly mixed, three colors are created:

Green, orange, and purple. Apply these colors to the project to provide a strong comparison.

 

Level 3 color

The three colors are derived from the mixture of colors and primary colors, including red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green, yellow-green, orange-red, and orange-yellow.

 

* Now, you should know how colors are derived. You can also know where the color combinations on the color wheel come from. Understanding the color principles will help you select colors in projects. Select an appropriate tonality for your design, and create a proper contrast so that the design work can be better expanded!

 

Complementary colors (the basic color combination we can get based on the color wheel)

Complementary colors refer to the colors with a 180 ° angle on the color wheel. Such as blue and orange, red and green, yellow and purple. Complementary colors have a very strong contrast. When the color saturation is high, you can create many amazing visual effects.

 

Similar colors

Similar colors refer to three adjacent colors on the color wheel. Similar colors are a good method for selecting similar colors. They can make a variety of textures and layers in the same tone. Some good combinations of colors are blue-green, blue and blue-purple, and yellow, yellow, and orange.

 

Triangle color

 

The triangle color is also a set of colors. It is a set of colors that are extracted by creating an equi triangle on the color ring, which can enrich the color of the work. In the above example, blue-purple and yellow-green can form a very strong comparison.

Scattered complementary colors

The difference between a scattered complementary color and a complementary color is that the scattered complementary color is not the opposite color of the target color. Take the figure above as an example. The Complementary color of Yellow should be purple, but we will take two colors next to purple-purple and blue-purple. In this way, we can not only have a strong contrast, but also enrich the color.

 

Quartet

The four-byte color is to draw a square on the color wheel and take the color of the four corners. In the preceding example, the values are purple, orange, yellow, green, and blue. This color is really great. If you don't believe it, you can feel it by yourself, especially when using one of the colors as the main color and the other three colors as the secondary color.

 

Complementary colors

The difference between the four-way complementary colors and the four-way complementary colors is that the four-way complementary colors use a rectangle. A combination of colors created by a set of complementary colors. In this example, the complementary colors are orange and blue, respectively, and the colors on both sides are used to create a rectangle. Finally, the rectangles are orange, orange, blue-green, and blue-purple.

 

Brightness

The color tone can also affect the color effect. For the blue color, the first image is the source image, the second image is white, and the third image is black, the same blue makes a difference. In practical application, you can change the color tone to create different feelings when using a monochrome color scheme.

 

Warm color

Warm colors can create a warm feeling. Warm colors often make people think of the sun, flame, and love. Red is the color of blood, it feels warm, orange and yellow will give people a feeling of summer. Add an orange filter to the image, and the image will feel warm and happy.

Cold color

Cool Colors also have their own unique meanings, which are often reminiscent of cool climate, Winter, death, sorrow, ice, night, and water. Cool colors can give people a feeling of calm, peace, newcomers, and cleanliness. Purple is often associated with VIP and looks very restrained.

Notes: learning color matching from scratch (1)