Hues: The colour itself
Tints: The colour + white
Tones: The colour + grey
Shades: The colour + black
The 12 colours in the colour wheel can be combined in many different ways in order to create colour schemes. There are certain colour combinations that are considered to be more pleasing, these being called colour harmonies or colour chords; which consist of two or more colours that have a fixed relation on the colour wheel.
Colour Combinations:
- Warm
- Cool
- Complementary
- Split-Complementary
- Triadic
- Rectangle (Tetradic)
- Analogous
- Monochromatic
For my task, I edited a web page in 4 different colour schemes; the ones I used being in bold in the above list.
Complementary:
Triadic:
Analogous:
Monochromatic:
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