The Basics of Color Theory and Color Wheel

Do you realize how color combinations are seemingly easy for artists, and most designers? This is thanks to color theory. Through this theory, they understand how to successfully coordinate colors, which never fails.

The Color Wheel

The creation of the color wheel dates back to 1666 when Isaac Newton placed colors of the spectrum as a circle. And This was indeed an important inception, as it is this wheel that forms the basis of color theory. It’s sort of a rule of thumb for anyone who has to work with colors.

Color Harmony

How good colors match with each other is referred to as color harmony. In order to evoke the correct feeling in his designs or artwork, artists and designers rely on these harmonies. Some basic rules and access to the color wheel are all you need to be able to locate colors that ring well together.

Different Types of Colour Wheels

RYB (Red, Yellow, Blue) Color Wheel:

Mainly allows painters to mix paint colours, so it is the classic artist’s colour wheel.

RGB (Red, Green, Blue) Color Wheel:

This one is for instruments such as screens and uses within digital graphics. Rather than mixing pigments, it deals with light mixing, a perfect counterpart to anything with a computer monitor.

Color Combinations
 

In every paint palette there are a few designers’ faves that they never let go of and always stick to, and these include:

Complementary Colors - 

These are colors that are found exactly opposite to one another on the color wheel meaning if combined together, they would complement one another. With Their use, It is easy to create a high level of contrast that enables the colors to stand out on their own which gives your design an enhancement.

Mastering the use of basic principles like color theory and the color wheel can quite literally elevate your design game. Be it experimenting different colors while painting a canvas or mixing things up for a web page, these concepts are bound to give you an epic aesthetic result. 

So go ahead, go wild with different color combos and out of the box creative ideas and see the work that comes out. It would not matter if you are already experienced or a beginner, the foundation knowledge should aid you majorly in getting the best results. Have fun and get ready to create your custom masterpieces!