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 Color Combinations

 

Choosing successful combinations of colors doesn't have to be random process. With a color wheel and knowledge of these tremplates, you can easily do it.

 

Complementary Relationships - are colors across from each other on the color wheel.

 

Split Complementary Colors - one hue and two equally spaced from its complement

 

Double-Complementary - two complementary color sets

 

Analogous relationships - those colors located adjacent to each other on the color wheel

Triad Relationship - three hues equallyp positioned on a color wheel

Color Proportion and Intensity
Examples using the complementary relationships shown above

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