Did you know that colour and visual elements activate the right brain (emotions), while the printed words activate the left brain (logic)? Colour and Typography remain to be the two most important elements in design. When you harmoniously combine them all you attract a quicker attention to the subject, reinforce impact and recognition, help in establishing powerful identities and brand, set a mood. So here is - combining colours to create the perfect pleasing patterns.

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3. Three Primary Colours
YEBRLLELUODEW
Three Secondary Colours
ORANGE PURPLE GREEN

4. Combine the secondary colours to
its neighbouring primary colour,
you’ll get a tertiary colour.
Yellow
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Green
Blue
Purple
Red
Purple
Red
Orange

5. Achromatic uses black, white and grey.
Achromatic

6. Monochromatic
uses a single
colour with
various values
and intensities.
Black and white
can be used here
to add various
tints and shades.
Monochromatic

7. Analogous uses colours adjacent in the colour wheel.
Any 3 neighbouring colours are analogous. The
colours vary slightly from each other & are
harmonious.
Analogous

8. Complementary uses colours
located opposite each other on
the colour wheel like red & green,
yellow & purple, orange & blue.
Complementary

9. Triadic
Triadic uses 3 colours from the colour
wheel equally spaced from the other.
These used together are considered
triadic. Orange, green and violet are
triadic colours.

10. In making your designs, you always want
it to look pleasing. So we have to
consider colour harmony. In doing that,
we merely have to know three theories.
• 2 Colours Opposite of Each other on
the Colour Wheel are harmonious.
• Any 3 Colours Equally Spaced Around
the Colour Wheel Forming a Triangle
are harmonious
• Any 4 Colours Forming a Rectangle,
Each Opposite of Each other on the
Colour
Colour Theories – Creating
Harmony

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