Color Wheels






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Color Wheels


A color wheel is an illustrative organization of colors around a circle,
showing the relationships between primary colors, secondary colors, and tertiary colors.



Color Wheel



Three Important Color Wheels


How many ways can you rearrange the rainbow?






RGB


Color Scheme

Red, Green, Blue






CMY


Color Scheme

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow






RYB


Color Scheme

Red, Yellow, Blue







The RGB Color Wheel




Color Scheme


The RGB (Red, Green, Blue) color wheel represents the 3 light sources used to produce colors on a TV
or computer screen.


Primary colors are Red, Green, and Blue.


Secondary colors are created by mixing primary colors:


Red and Green= Yellow
Green and Blue = Cyan
Blue and Red = Magenta




The 12 Main Colors of RGB:



















RED
#FF0000
(255,0,0)

#FF8000
(255,128,0)		YELLOW
#FFFF00
(255,255,0)

#80FF00
(128,255,0)		GREEN
#00FF00
(0,255,0)

#00FF80
(0,255,80)
CYAN
#00FFFF
(0,255,255)

#0080FF
(0,128,255)		BLUE
#0000FF
(0,0,255)

#8000FF
(128,00,255)		MAGENTA
#FF00FF
(255,0,255)

#FF0080
(255,0,128)


RGB Green is different from the HTML color named Green.




RGB Green is different from the HTML color named Green.




Read more about RGB.






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The CMY(K) Color Wheel




Color Scheme


The CMY(K) (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) represent the colors used to print on paper.


The primary colors are Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow.


Secondary colors are created by mixing primary colors:


Cyan and Magenta = Blue
Magenta and Yellow = Red
Yellow and Cyan =
Green.




The 12 Main Colors of CYM:




















CYAN
#00FFFF
(0,255,255)

#0080FF
(0,128,255)		BLUE
#0000FF
(0,0,255)

#8000FF
(128,00,255)
MAGENTA
#FF00FF
(255,0,255)

#FF0080
(255,0,128)
RED
#FF0000
(255,0,0)

#FF8000
(255,128,0)
YELLOW
#FFFF00
(255,255,0)

#80FF00
(128,255,0)		GREEN
#00FF00
(0,255,0)

#00FF80
(0,255,80)

Read more about CMYK.



The RYB Color Wheel




Color Scheme


The RYB (Red, Yellow, Blue) color wheel is used by painters, artists and
designers for blending pigment colors.


The 3 primary colors are Red, Yellow, and Blue.


Secondary colors are created by mixing primary colors.


The 3 secondary colors are Orange, Green, and Purple.


Red and Yellow = Orange
Yellow and Blue = Green
Blue and Red = Purple.





The tertiary colors are made by mixing two secondary colors.


The 6 tertiary colors are Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Blue-Purple, Red-Purple




The 12 Main Colors of RYB:




















RED
#FE2712		R-O
#FC600A		ORANGE
#FB9902		Y-O
#FCCC1A
YELLOW
#FEFE33		Y-G
#B2D732
GREEN
#66B032		B-G
#347C98
BLUE
#0247FE		B-P
#4424D6		PURPLE
#8601AF		R-P
#C21460


RYB is the best color wheel to identify the colors that go well together.


The RYB wheel can be used to create pleasing color schemes for the web.


You will learn more about color schemes in the chapter of
Color Schemes.






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