Part 1: Basic Understanding: Need to Know
Primary Colours: Blue, Red and Yellow are the primary colours. Primary colours cannot be mixed or formed by any combination of other colours. Primary colours are pure.
Secondary Colours: Green, Orange and Purple are secondary colours. Secondary colours are formed by mixing two primary colours.
Tertiary Colours: Red-Orange, Yellow-Green and Blue-Violet are examples of Tertiary colours. Tertiary colours are formed when mixing an equal amount of a primary colours with an equal amount of a secondary colour.
Secondary Colours: Green, Orange and Purple are secondary colours. Secondary colours are formed by mixing two primary colours.
Tertiary Colours: Red-Orange, Yellow-Green and Blue-Violet are examples of Tertiary colours. Tertiary colours are formed when mixing an equal amount of a primary colours with an equal amount of a secondary colour.
Complementary Colours: Red and Green, Yellow and Purple and Blue and Orange are examples of complementary colours. Complementary colours are opposite each other on the colour wheel. Complementary colours create a large contrast useful when highlighting something important. Overuse of complementary colours can be overwhelming and ugly.
Analogous Colours: These are colours located next to each other on the colour wheel. They normally look similar and compliment each other, they have a dominant, a secondary and tertiary colour. These colours display a monochromatic look.
Triadic Colours: A triadic colour scheme uses colours that are spaced around the colour wheel in a triangular shape. Triadic colours are often very vibrant. Triadic colour schemes work much better when letting one color dominate the other two.
Split Complementary Colours: Split complementary colours are similar to complementary colours, as it has base colour but instead of using it's complementary colour it uses the two colours adjacent to it. This creates a strong contrasting effect just as complementary colours do.
Rectangle Colours: A rectangle or tetradic colour scheme uses four colours spaced around the colour wheel in a rectangular shape.
Square Colours: Similar to the Triadic and Tetradic colour schemes before it Square colour schemes use four colours spaced around the colour wheel in a square shape. The colour scheme works best when allowing one colour to be the dominant and have the remaining colours accent it.
Warm Colours: Warm colours are ones that can make you feel comfort and warmth or even anger and hostility. They mainly consist of orange, red and yellowish colours.
Cool Colours: Cool colours are ones that can make you feel sad, calm, isolated and alone. Mainly consisting of blueish colours.
Monochromatic Colours: These are colours that start at the same base colour but used with different shades of it.
Hue: The property of light by which the color of an object is classified as red, blue, green, or yellow in reference to the spectrum.
Satuartion: How intense a colour is, the dominance of hue in the color
Tints and Shades: A tint of a colour is when you add white to it increasing it's lightness. A shade of a colour is when you add black to it increasing it's darkness.
Luminance: How bright a colour is.
Part 2: Colour Psychology and Symbolism
When I was younger I couldn't decide between blue and red as my favourite colours and that's when it hit me, if I can't choose one why not choose both. Purple is my favourite colour.
What Does Colour Mean?
What Does Colour Mean?