Tips on Color

This information can be useful in coordinating jewelry with outfits!

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Color in design is based on Nature's wonderful chart of colors - the rainbow. Primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. The colors created when two primaries blend make secondary colors - orange, green, violet.

Blending a primary with a secondary makes tertiary colors – red-orange, orange-yellow, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, etc. A color wheel in the order of the colors in a rainbow gives us a useful chart, showing how colors work with each other.

 

On the color chart above, colors next to each other harmonize (analogous color scheme), colors directly opposite complement each other (complementary color scheme), and tertiary colors directly opposite complement each other (triadic color scheme). Lightening a color with white is called a tint; darkening a color with black is called a shade. Using light to dark of one color provides a monochromatic color scheme.

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