Color Schemes
Complementary colors
Two opposite colors on the color wheel
Split-complementary colors
A color and then the two adjacent colors of the opposite.
Triadic colors
Three colors of equal distance apart on the color wheel.
Tetradic colors
Four colors of equal distance apart on the color wheel.
Analogous colors
Colors next to each other on the color wheel; good for warm and cool color palettes.
Monochromatic colors
Variations of one color from the color wheel; add white to get tints and add black to get shades.
All color wheel graphics were created by Amanda McCollom and are licensed under a CC-BY-SA 2.0 license.