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Color Analysis
BASIC COLOR STRUCTURE
The human eye is capable of distinguishing millions of individual colors. All these from
the deepest inky black to single rend and bright white are made up from just seven basic
colors. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, White and Violet. If we arrange these colors
in the order of a circle, a colour wheel is obtained. The wheel can help u to visualize how
colour compliments, contrasts, harmonizes or clashes.
1. Primary colour : Primary colors are poster red, lemon yellow, and cobalt blue,
which can not obtained by mixing any other colors

2. Secondary Color : Secondary colors are colors made by mixing any two primary
colors in equal proportion
Example
Red + Blue = Violet
Yellow + Red = Orange
Blue + Yellow = Poster
Green

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3. Tertiary Color : These are the in-between colors that are created with the mixing of
a primary color with a secondary color

4. Quaternary color : Quaternary is the mixing of 2 tertiary colors in equal

proportion
5. Color wheel : If the colors of the rainbow are arranged in a circle, the result is a
color wheel

6. Adjacent or Analogous
Colors: These are the colors,
which are adjacent to the main color. E.g. Radish Orange and Radish Purple are
adjacent or Next to the red color in colour wheel

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7. Complementary Colors: are the colors placed directly across from the other on the
color wheel: red with green, blue with orange, violet with yellow. They are called

complimentary because the heavy contrast between the two colors

8. Warm Color: The colors that fall between red, orange, and yellow called warm
colors. Warm Colors make you feel warm and are the colors of the sun and fire.,
9. Cool colors : cool color are the opposite of the warm colors. A color scheme in
which blue is the prominent is said to be a cool scheme. Cool colors are Blue,
Green, Violet
10. Pastel Colors: The Secondary and primary colors are termed as bright colors.
More of white to the bright color results in a pastel colors
Red + White Orange + white
Yellow + White Violet + White
Blue + white Green+White

11. Neutrals Colors : A touch of black to the bright colors result in neutrals colors
Red + Black Orange + Black
Yellow + Black Violet + Black
Blue + Black Green + Black
12. Monochromatic color: if we lighten Red by adding white we get pink. If we
darken it by adding black we get wine red. If these tones were used together in an
outfit we may call it monochromatic color scheme. Tint of Red, Shades of Red
A tint of a color is made by adding white.
A shade is made by adding black
13. Achromatic color : Achromatic colors are black and white which are non-color
14. Earth Tones: Shades of Brown, Gray, and Green are earth tones. We get more
different shades of earth tones by adding black and white