Working with colors. Part Two.

Simple rules of color wheel

1. A lot of colors look good when mixed with the shades in different intensities. Such color techniques are known as monochromatic.

2. Good way to combine colors with their nearby friends. Whatever 3 border colors on a 12 part color wheel compose an analogous tone scheme. Colors of these scheme  are harmonious.

3. The opposite colors on the  wheel make complementary scheme. Such colors fill up each other. Cold color has warm matche and vice-versa.

Mind color halftones

If you need green but wish a slight result, pick a white or grey with a green halftone. Try to recognize color tone, it can be warm or cool. A warm blue includes a number of red making it more purple when cool blue includes quite a few green which makes it look more aqua.
Remember neutral colors as well have halftones. Usually it's possible to mistake gray with blue when there is a blue halftone.

Working with colors. Part One.

It’s said that color and visual things activate the right part of brain that equals to emotions, while text activates the left part of brain that equals to logic. Color and Typography stay the most significant factors in design. Whenever you blend them you catch the attention of the topic, reinforce effect, help out with setting up impressive identities and brand, set a feelings.

Let's analyze advantages in designing with color. No matter if you need to modify the color gamma of your website, or create a poster to catch the attention of people, as well as paint the rooms at home, most of these color basics will assist you in getting color-wisdom.

Make time to understand the color wheel.

All of colors of the wheel composed of 3 basics: red, blue, yellow. Once you mix the basics, you obtain 3 secondary colors: orange, purple, green. Once you mix each secondary color using its border basic, you obtain 6 tertiary colors: yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-purple, red-purple, red-orange. Now we have 12-color wheel.