Title: Relationships that exist between colors

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Relationships that exist between colors

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Monochrome

It refers to a single color on the color wheel.

Figure 1. Monochrome on the color wheel. Example: red

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Complementary colors

Two colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel. The contrast between two complementary colors is the strongest that can exist on the wheel.

Figure 2. Complementary colors in the color wheel. Example: red and cyan.

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Divided complementary colors

The main color and the two neighbors of its complementary color

Figure 3. Divided complementary colors on the color wheel. Example: red, greenish blue and purplish blue.

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Triads

Three colors that have the same distance from each other on the color wheel. Primary and secondary colors make triads, respectively.

Figure 4. A triad on the color wheel. Example: red, green, and blue.

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Analogous colors

Three consecutive colors. These kinds of combinations are natural

Figure 5. Analogous colors on the color wheel. Example: orangey red, red and orangey yellow.

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Mutual complementary colors

They include four colors. A triad of colors separated from each other by the same distance and the complementary color of one of them

Figure 6. Mutual complementary colors on the color wheel. Example: red, green, cyan, and blue.

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Close complementary colors

It Is one of the neighboring colors of the main color complementary. It can be any of them

Figure 7.  Close complementary colors on the color wheel. Example: red and purplish blue.

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Complementary double colors

Two consecutive colors and their two complementary colors

Figure 8.  Complementary double colors on the color wheel. Example: red, orangey yellow, cyan, and purplish blue.