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A typical artist's color wheel displays twelve hues in their saturated state, along with tones, tints, and shades for each.
Primary Colors - Red, Yellow, and Blue
Secondary Colors - Orange, Green, and Violet
Tertiary (intermediate) Colors - red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green, and yellow-orange
Color Harmonies
Color Harmonies are groupings of specific hues and/or different values of one hue.There are several recognized color harmonies. They are as follows:
Achromatic - a grouping of colors without hue; white,black,and any values.
Monochromatic - a grouping of different values of one hue, and which may include achromatic colors.
Diadic - two colors that are two colors apart on the color wheel.
Analogous - a grouping of three adjacent hues on the color wheel; one color dominates.
Extended Analogous - a grouping of four to five adjacent hues on the color wheel.
Complementary - a pair of hues directly opposite each other on the color wheel.
Near-Complementary - a hue combined with another hue which is on one side or the other of its direct complement.
Split-Complementary / Alternate-Complementary - a trio of hues, consisting of a hue and the two hues on either side of its direct complement.
Analogous Complementary - one hue, its direct complement, and the two hues on either side of the complement.
Double-Complementary - two pairs of complementary hues.
Triadic - a grouping of three hues which are equidistant on the color wheel.
Tetradic - a grouping of four hues which are equidistant on the color wheel; effectively, a double-complement.
Polychromatic - a multicolored grouping of many hues which may otherwise be unrelated.
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