People often struggle with creating a great color scheme. In my last few blog articles we discussed how you could take your favorite color, blue for example, and create different color schemes. We explored monochromatic, analogous, complimentary, diad, triad and tetrad color schemes. Today, lets look at a Split-Complimentary!
A double-complimentary scheme uses four colors which include two complimentary color pairings. It can be difficult to balance if you use all four colors in equal amounts it may feel like too much. You can use one to three colors as dominant colors and and let the rest be more subdued. By subdued, I mean you can use less of the colors proportionally. Or you could use less saturated versions of the colors so they don’t stand out as much, but color schemes tend to look more harmonious if you are using similar saturation or chroma levels. Here are some examples.
Great information on creating a split complementary color scheme! And beautiful examples to help us understand the concepts.
Thanks so much Lisa!
This is so informative and well illustrated!
Thanks so much for reading!
So many great examples of how to play with color in a space. It really helps that you explain and show examples – it makes it so much easier to understand the concepts. Thanks for the tips!
Thank you Jeanne! I agree, this would be a hard one to explain without pictures! Thanks for reading!
This is such a useful series, Mary Ann. Your examples make it really easy to understand the differences in these color schemes!
Thanks Leslie! Color is so important to any design yet so hard for people to visualize. I hope it makes it a little easier and inspires people to be braver with color:)
Very well composed. Love this and the examples.
Thank you Chari!