Achromatic schemes are made up of Black and Whites and the various range of neutral grays they produce. You can give achromatics a temperature by adding a small touch of another color.
Monochromatic:
If you take a basic hue from the color wheel and use it and only its
various tints and shades. The monochromatic scheme is usually a safe
bet for pleasabilty factor. However it can often be the fall back
scheme for designer and artists that are afraid to play with color.
Analoguos:
An analoguous (say that 5 times fast) are three colors that are
adjacent (side by side) on the color wheel. These colors are often
harmonious and easy on the eye.
Primary:The
playground colors. Made famous by such painters such as Mondrian (he
rarely if ever used green in work), the Primary scheme is made up of a
mixture of the Red, Blue and Yellow and is strong and energetic.
Secondary: The secondary scheme is made up of orange, green and violet. This scheme can aslo be energitic, and fresh.
Tertiary Triad:
This ones a bit complicated and hard to conceptualize: but basically
there are two schemes of three tertiary colors that are equidistant
(Draw a equilateral triangle on the color wheel.) A basic Triadic
scheme is when three colors are equidistant on the wheel.
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