An Overview of Colour Principles

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There is a lot of information on the principles of using colour available both on the Internet and in any good bookstore or library if you wish to delve more deeply into this subject.

Some terms you should become familiar with.

Hue: The term hue is colour with no black, white or grey added The term colour and hue are interchangeable.

Tint:  hue and white

Shade: hue and black

Tone: hue plus Grey or hue plus varying degrees of its complementary colour

Value: how light or dark a colour appears

Intensity: how bright or dull a colour appears, also called saturation and this is defined by how much of the hue is identifiable.

Colour is classified and organized on what is known as the Colour Wheel

Colours that are opposite on the colour wheel are always perfectly balanced.

The secret to everything is BALANCE and the colour wheel helps us sort things systematically.

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