Color wheel is a visual aid that is used to understand color and color relationships. A color wheel is actually made of 6 basic colors – Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple and several in-between colors depending on how many hue wheels you want to have. A simple color wheel has 12 hue wheels is the most common one. Remember, the placement of colors in the wheel corresponds to the wavelengths of light which was originally developed by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666. He discovered that when pure white light passes through a prism, it separates into 7 visible colors – Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. When he passed these individual color rays thru the prism it came back as White color. He also found that each color is made up of a single wavelength and cannot be separated any further into other colors. Newton thus concluded that White light was made up of 7 different color rays. Check this article for in-depth information on the color wheel: http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/05/08/history-of-the-color-wheel/
primary colors are red, blue and yellow a.k.a RBG – cannot be created by mixing other colors; these three colors are the base for every other color on the wheel; placed at equidistant on the wheel;
secondary colors are violet, green and orange – created by mixing two primaries;
tertiary colors red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet and red-violet which are created by mixing a primary and a secondary color;
cool colors include shades of purple, green and blue; calming and soothing colors;
warm colors include shades of red, yellow and orange; vivid and energetic colors;
neutral colors include shades of ivory, white, taupe, gray, black and beige; take properties of surrounding colors;
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Incorporating color into a home is certainly tricky to do. But these rooms that you have shown me above have inspired me to add little pops of color in my rooms. Who said adding color was hard anyways? 🙂
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