1. Color Schemes
Housing I
Objective 3.03

2. A COLOR HARMONY is a pleasing combination of colors based on their respective positions on the color wheel. There are 7 basic color harmonies: MONOCHROMATIC ANALOGOUS COMPLEMENTARY SPLIT-COMPLEMENTARY TRIADIC DOUBLE-COMPLEMENTARY NEUTRAL

3. MONOCHROMATIC COLOR HARMONY
The simplest because it uses a single hue from the color wheel.
Variation is achieved by changing the value and/or intensity of the hue.
Accents of neutrals can be used to add interest.
Can make a room appear larger.

5. ANALOGOUS COLOR HARMONY
Analogous color harmonies are created by choosing colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. (3 – 5 hues)
They are all related so they blend well together and merge into one another.
Works best if you choose one dominate color and use smaller amounts of the others.

7. COMPLEMENTARY COLOR HARMONY
Using two colors that are positioned directly opposite each other on the color wheel.
Sometime called contrasting colors because they make each other look brighter and more intense.
When blue is used with orange the blue is bluer and the orange is stronger making a room bright and dramatic.

8. SPLIT-COMPLEMENTARY COLOR HARMONY
Made when one hue is used with the two hues adjacent to its complement. (ex. Blue is the first hue with orange as it’s complement so you would choose the colors on both sides of orange. Blue, yellow-orange, and red-orange.)
Blue would be the dominant color.

10. TRIADIC COLOR HARMONY
Uses three colors that are equally distant from each other on the color wheel. (Ex. Yellow, blue, and red)
Primary colors and secondary colors form a triadic color scheme as well as others.
The pictured uses secondary colors to form the triadic.

12. NEUTRAL COLOR HARMONY
Black, white, gray as well as brown, tan, and beige.
Small amounts of colors are sometimes added to neutral color schemes to give the room more interest.