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Harmonies

This box gives you colors harmonies, which are supposed to be colors that go together well.

What you can do for each harmony:

  1. See the harmony on the color wheel
  2. Add to memory all the colors of the harmony (each color can, as usual, be added to memory separately, by clicking its own upper-left white corner)

Each harmony displays first the current color. Also note that all harmonies can have no sense in some cases. For example, a triadic harmony does not have any meaning if the current color is a gray.

Harmonies description

Complementary

The harmony is made by adding to the current color its complementary. A complementary color is the one which gives black when melt with the color (substractive system).

On the color wheel, two harmony cursors are added, one on the hue wheel, the other one on the SL map.

Opposite

The harmony is made by adding to the current color the one which is located at the opposite of the hue wheel.

Only one harmony cursor is added to the color wheel, as the opposite color shares its lightness and saturation with its color.

Neutral

The harmony is made by adding to the current color the gray of same lightness.

One harmony cursor appears on the color wheel, in the SL map.

Complementary neutral

The harmony is made by adding to the current color the gray of same lightness of its complentary.

One harmony cursor appears on the color wheel, in the SL map.

Shade

The harmony is made by adding to the current color two colors of same hue, but lighter.

Two harmony cursors are displayed in the SL map part of the COlor wheel box.

You can change the variation of shade by dragging the harmony cursor (circle) which has a black border.

Analogous

The harmony is made by adding to the current color two close colors on the color wheel.

Two harmony cursors are displayed in the Color wheel box, one for each hue of the harmony.

Split opposite

The harmony is made by adding to the current color two colors close to the opposite color.

Two harmony cursors are displayed in the Color wheel box, one for each hue of the harmony.

Split complementary

The harmony is made by adding to the current color two colors close to the complementary color.

Two harmony cursors are displayed in the Color wheel box, one for each hue of the harmony. Another harmony cursor is displayed in the SL map to show the lightness level of the harmony colors.

Triangle

The harmony is made by adding two colors to the current color, so they form a triangle on the color wheel.

Two harmony cursors are displayed in the Color wheel box, one for each hue of the harmony.

You can modify the variation between colors on the color wheel (the triangle shape) by dragging the active harmony cursor.

Tetradic

The harmony is made by adding three colors to the current color, so they form a rectangle on the color wheel.

Three harmony cursors are displayed in the Color wheel box, one for each hue of the harmony.

You can modify the variation between colors on the color wheel (the rectangle shape) by dragging the active harmony cursor.

 

Note you can not change the variation for Analogous nor Split opposite harmonies, but you can use the Triadic harmony to do so.