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 The colour wheel consists of three primary colors: red, yellow and blue, between the primary colours there are three secondary colours: orange, purple and green. These secondary colours are created by mixing the two neighboring primary colours.



Tertiary or intermediate colours are created by mixing a primary and a secondary colour.  The tertiary colours are: yellow-orange, yellow–green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-orange, and red- violet.





Working with the colour wheel as a guide there are several types of color harmonies or schemes that can be created:

  • Monochromatic colour schemes use only one colour from the wheel. Interest is generated by using different values of the colour ranging from light to dark.



  • Analogous schemes are also referred to as Harmonious schemes; the colours used are adjacent to each other on the colour wheel.  Three to six colors are used with one predominating.  Success with this type of scheme relies upon using a variety of values and intensities and varying proportions of each colour.
  • Complimentary schemes use colours that are opposite on the color wheel, opposites intensify each other.  There are several variations of complimentary schemes:
  • Direct compliment –uses pairs exactly opposite such as red and green.



  • Split compliment – the base hue and the two colours on each side of the compliment such as green, red-orange and red-violet.
  • Triadic compliment – uses three colours equidistant on the wheel such as green, orange and violet.
  • Double compliments – would be two pairs exactly opposite such as red and green with blue and orange.








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