From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Color
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What is the color wheel?
From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Color
What is the color wheel?
- We can thank Sir Isaac Newton for creating the very useful tool known as the color wheel. He demonstrated that light alone was responsible for perception of color and devised the first color wheel in 1666 as a circular diagram for understanding a color system in an organized fashion. Since then, there have been many variations created and much debate about color theory but I'll focus on just one color wheel that presents the colors clearly. The color wheel is an organizational tool that helps make the basic categories of color easier to understand. As a graph, it makes the different types of color clear and can help you as a first point of reference in deciding on a palette. This diagram demonstrates the three basic categories of colors: primary, secondary and tertiary. A primary color is a color that can not be made by mixing other colors and like prime numbers can not be broken down further. They are the source of other colors. Primaries are: blue, red and yellow. A secondary…
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