Unlock your color wisdom!
The most challenging part of shopping with your spouse or friend is when the spouse/partner asks you to select from a collection having varied colors. How many of you were stumped and stumbled at this point, or disappointed your partner with your selection?
Have you ever wished for some kind of magic wand or a handy one touch color wheel application which empowers you to identify the color on the apparel and relate it to specific color harmony so that you can suggest an appropriate color harmony!
Sounds great, isn’t it? Let us now go a little more detailed into it.
6 basic color harmonies
Color harmony helps in choosing the right colors in situations like while shopping online, creating an appealing painting, and editing photographs, so that the right and required emotions are evoked from the people. The following diagram depicts the 6 basic color harmonies:
There are many more color harmonies like Rectangle - rectangle on the color wheel and Accented analogous.
Here are a few examples which depict the color harmony and also a quiz for you:
Yes, It is analogous, let us take an example of Analogous color harmony.
Analogous colors are related which means that the colors are from the same family and they don’t clash or stand out from one another. You can find similar examples in nature such as sunset or sunrise which brings the best analogous color harmony that progressively moves from bright yellow to orange to red in its natural gradient pattern and it is very pleasing to the eye.
An example: How do I use color knowledge in enhancing a mock visual?
The first step is how to find the appropriate color harmony. To simplify our lives, color calculators are available which help us identify the color harmony. For example, you can use Adobe Kuler to identify the color harmony and customize it. The following process helps you to enhance the overall color sense and create more eye pleasing color pallette for any project.
1. Select the mock that you want to improve
2. Find what colors are used from the color wheel. You can use Adobe Kuler to import the image and it tells you what colors are used in the image.
3. It is now easier to identify a similar color harmony, for this example it is analogous and we can enhance the color palette
4. The result is an improved mockup. You can compare with your earlier mockup to validate.
Note: Colour is only one aspect of design. Other factors in design include content, language, logo, typography, branding, and strategy.
References: Color calculators
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